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,