Note 663 — Part II—The Worldlings (continued 5)
Henri Van Laun translation
He addresses his muse thus, in "Verses occasioned by Sir William Temple's late illness and recovery," XIV. 45: "Wert thou right woman, thou should'st scorn to look On an abandoned wretch by hopes forsook; Forsook by hopes, ill fortune's last relief. Assign'd for life to unremitting grief; "To thee I owe that fatal bent of mind Still to unhappy restless thoughts inclined; To thee, what oft I vainly strive to hide, That scorn of fools, by fools mistook for pride."