Then grant us, Gracious, Virtue and wealth, for both are of thy gift!” […] wilt thou ne’er enable us to look Into the volume clasped at thy right hand? […] ‌This story shows us at a glance, the principles and the conduct of the greatest philosophers of Greece. […] His figure is that of an effeminate young man, to denote the joys which commonly prevail at feasts; and sometimes an old man, to teach us that wine taken immoderately, will enervate us, consume our health, render us loquacious and childish, like old men, and unable to keep secrets. […] “‘Then let us join,’ at last Narcissus said, ‘Then let us join,’ replied the ravished maid.”