VII.

His ill-gained wealth was gone, but not his heart;

And gain it seemed to that impatient spirit

That now he should not go, a man disgraced,

To build his fallen ancestral home, long bare

To the invading scorn of low-born men.

He would sail eastward, with what yet remained,

Touch at some island of the Tropic seas,

And take a freight of spices; thence set sail

For the rich ports of China, there to trade,