XXXVI.
The Cynic[9] being asked, "When he should love?"
Made answer, "When he nothing had to do;
Amor est otiogorum negotium.
For Love was Sloth!" But he did never prove
By his experience, what belonged thereto.
For had he tasted but so much as I,
He would have soon reformed his heresy.
XXXVII.
O judge me not, sweet Love, by outward show