Canto

1     5|   often I excite~So vain and bootless an emprize to quit;~Nor
2    11| saying, like one blind, with bootless care,~Feeling his way about
3    15|    Whelms in the stream; but bootless is the throw:~For like a
4    38|      your counsel crave.~If, bootless, homeward I should wend