Chapter 54

These ills are found in prospering love and true; But in crossed love and helpless there be such As through shut eyelids thou canst still take in-- Uncounted ills; so that 'tis better far To watch beforehand, in the way I've shown, And guard against enticements. For to shun A fall into the hunting-snares of love Is not so hard, as to get out again, When tangled in the very nets, and burst The stoutly-knotted cords of Aphrodite. Yet even when there enmeshed with tang…