“A wretch forlorn upon the shore he lay,

His ship, his comrades, all were swept away;

Fool that I was, I pitied his despair,

And even gave him of my realm a share.”

“A wretch forlorn upon the shore he lay, His ship, his comrades, all were swept away; Fool that I was, I pitied his despair, And even gave him of my realm a share.”

This is not to remind, but to reproach; this is to make one’s benefits odious to enable him, or even to make him wish to be ungrateful. It is enough, and more than enough, to remind him of it gently and familiarly: