I sought!-content alone to stand
And make my soul my friend?

And wherefore more ?-the echoed blame,
The lukewarm and the low-breath'd praise,
The niggard and reluctant fame,

The uneven scale that falsely weighs
Alike our end and means; the lies
That Idlesse lists and Wrath supplies;
These may have stings the bosom feels,
But he can conquer who conceals;
And God hath armour for the mind
That wars on Custom for Mankind!

As one who combats from a tower,
He pours his strength below,

Whose height is Truth's beleaguered power,

Whose foes-- are Vice and Woe!

BOOK THE THIRD.

CHAPTER I.

ARGUMENT.

Chang and Ching before the Justice-Ching's defence-A new difficulty; how removed-Julian's opportune appearance-Julian returns homeLines on Burns-On the wrong done men of genius-The Imaginative, rarely love with a human and real passion-But if they do so love, and the love be formed in early youth, the preternatural strength and ardour of the feeling-Our first love compared to our first playState of Julian's mind-Alteration in his manner and aspect-Digressive allusion to the Wizards of old-Julian's resolution to seek his fortune in India-The Lovers occasionally meet.

BOOK THE THIRD.

CHAPTER I.

THE morning now begins to press on;
The Nursery maidens home repair;
Young Gentlemen resume their lesson;
And the stern Justice takes his chair.
Some half a dozen cases hurried;
Some half a dozen wretches worried;
Some half a dozen of the worst of
Culprits to prison justly thrust off;
Base varlets with such ragged breeches,
The very Treadmill for them itches.
Some half a dozen so respectable,
That Justice is not to suspect able