To what odd purpose have the darlings turned
This sad memorial of their hapless friend!"
"Me," said I, "most doth it surprise, to find
Such book in such a place!"—" A book it is,"
He answered,"to the Person suited well,
Though little suited to surrounding things:
'Tis strange, I grant; and stranger still had been
To see the Man who owned it, dwelling here,[164]
With one poor shepherd, far from all the world!—
Now, if our errand hath been thrown away,