Fairlier

Bel[linda]. Pray where got you your Learning then? / Heartf[ree]. From other Peoples Expence. / Bel[linda]. That’s being a Spunger, Sir, which is ſcarce honeſt; if you’d buy ſome Experience with your own Mony, as ’twould be fairlier got, ſo ’twould ſtick longer by you.

Dear Christ, who knew’st sweet Honour’s art, / And clad’st humanity, / E’en fairlier than my proud heart / Though craveth it to see / More beautiful—more, more divine / Life’s purpose, ere at knighthood’s shrine / I kneel and vow, and make it mine.

The sun, when setting fairly on this land, / Dawns fairlier still upon some alien strand, / And I, as this world’s shape of me lies dead, / Perchance shall sail into the golden West, / Within a spirit ship, at Death’s behest, / And see, Columbus-like, new worlds ahead.

No man could carve out leafage and beasts fairlier than Lavrans, but with men’s semblances he had never been over happy.