Rough Johnson, the great moralist, professed,

Right honestly, "he liked an honest hater!"[655]—

The only truth that yet has been confessed

Within these latest thousand years or later.

Perhaps the fine old fellow spoke in jest:—

For my part, I am but a mere spectator,

And gaze where'er the palace or the hovel is,

Much in the mode of Goethe's Mephistopheles;