[377] In Rabbi Ben Ezra the true measure of such work's beneficence is shewn:—

Not on the vulgar mass

Called 'work,' must sentence pass,

Things done, that took the eye and had the price;

O'er which, from level stand,

The low world laid its hand,

Found straightway to its mind, could value in a trice:

But all the world's coarse thumb

And finger failed to plumb,

So passed in making up the main account;