For selfishness, and envy, and revenge, 355

Ill neighbourhood—pity that this should be—

Flattery and double-dealing, strife and wrong.

Yet is it something gained, it is in truth

A mighty gain, that Labour here preserves

His rosy face, a servant only here 360

Of the fire-side, or of the open field,

A freeman, therefore, sound and unimpaired;

That extreme penury is here unknown,

And cold and hunger’s abject wretchedness,