But when it swerves to ill, or if it should
Seek good with more or less zeal than is right,
Against the maker doth his work rebel.
Whence may’st thou[[113]] comprehend how love in you
Must of all virtue be the seed, as well
As of each action to which pain is due.
Now since love must look ever towards its own
Subjects’ well-being, things are from self-hate
Saved; and since naught can be supposed alone
To exist, from the First Being separate,