Or to his interest or reputation,

I am content he suffer as he may:

But if another, with malicious fraud,

Has laid a snare for unexperienced youth,

And triumph’d o’er it; can you lay the blame

On us, or on the judges, who oft take

Through envy from the rich, or from compassion

Add to the poor?

Geta. Unless I knew the cause,

I should imagine this was truth he spoke.