• From Canto I.
     The castle hight of Indolence,
      And its false luxury;
    Where for a little time, alas!
      We lived right jollily.

      O MORTAL man, who livest here by toil,
      Do not complain of this thy hard estate;
      That like an emmet thou must ever moil,
      Is a sad sentence of an ancient date;
      And, certes, there is for it...