As each for himself can see;
Gift-givers’ friendships | are longest found,
If fair their fates may be.
[a]42]. To his friend a man | a friend shall prove,
And gifts with gifts requite;
But men shall mocking | with mockery answer,
And fraud with falsehood meet.
[a]43]. To his friend a man | a friend shall prove,
To him and the friend of his friend;
But never a man | shall friendship make