True Friendship's Laws Are By This Rule

Of Darkness Visible So Much Be Lent, As Half To Show, Half Veil, The Deep Intent.

Most Women Have No Characters At All.

Search Then The Ruling Passion; There Alone, The Wild Are Constant, And The Cunning Known; The Fool Consistent, And The False Sincere; Priests, Princes, Women, No Dissemblers Here.

Now Warm In Love, Now With'ring In My Bloom Lost In A Convent's Solitary Gloom!

He Knows To Live Who Keeps The Middle State, And Neither Leans On This Side Nor On That.