[Thy power is neighbour to necessity]
Whatsoever necessity can force thee to bear, it is in thy power to bear voluntarily. If thy friend have wronged thee, how canst thou say, thou art not able to endure his company, when imprisonment might constrain thee to it? See Hierocles.
['Mongst men discourses good and bad are spread;
Despise not these,[1] nor be by those misled.]
So Hierocles; Marcilius reads ὦν (that is, οὖν) for ὧν which best agrees with this sense.
[what any other may accuse]
φθόνον. Hierocles interprets μέμψιν, invidia, so taken sometimes by Cicero, Marcell.
[And every business of the following day
As soon as by the morn awak'd, dispose]
These two lines I have inserted upon the authority of Porphyrius,