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"Guide of the Dead, warding a father's way,

Be thou my light and saviour, where I pray,

In this my fatherland, returned, restored."

You find some false lines there?

About a dozen!

Why, altogether there are only three!

But every one has twenty faults in drawing!

[ begins to interrupt.

No, stop, stop, Aeschylus; or perhaps you'll find

Your debts run up to more than three iambics.

Stop to let him speak?

Well, that's my advice.

He's gone straight off some thousand miles astray.

Of course it's foolery—but what do I care?

Point out the faults.