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“Poor fool! Believe so if ye will,”

But if ye ask my sentence, still

Broad love is better.”

“Show me proof.”

“Right willingly. For one’s behoof,

If two things are agreed to be

Needful and fair, it seems to me,

That needed most, must be the better.”

“I own that true unto the letter.”

“Incline thine ear, while I pursue

The differing nature of the two:

Each one is good within its sphere,

And both great benefits confer.”

“’Tis true.”

“And you will not contest

But things which profit most are best.”

VOL. I.