Most tenderly, and this the arrow is Which first the bow of banishment shoots forth. Thou shalt have proof how savoureth of salt 1674 The bread of others, and how hard a road The going down and up another’s stairs. And that which most shall weigh upon thy shoulders Will be the bad and foolish company 1675 With which into this valley thou shalt fall; For all ingrate, all mad and impious Will they become against thee; but soon after They, and not thou, shall have the forehead scarlet. 1676 Of their bestiality their own proceedings Shall furnish proof; so ’twill be well for thee A party to have made thee by thyself. Thine earliest refuge and thine earliest inn Shall be the mighty Lombard’s courtesy, 1677 Who on the Ladder bears the holy bird, Who such benign regard shall have for thee That ’twixt you twain, in doing and in asking, That shall be first which is with others last.