You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant! But yet you draw not iron, for my heart Is true as steel.

O, where is loyalty? If it be banished from the frosty head, Where shall it find a harbor in the earth?

Thou givest life and love for Greece and Right: I will stand by thee lest thou shouldst be weak, Not weak of soul.--I will but hold in sight Thy marvelous beauty.--Here is She you seek!

Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it. [Lat., Poscunt fidem secunda, at adversa exigunt.]

Fidelity bought with money is overcome by money. [Lat., Pretio parata vincitur pretio fides.]

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.