THE INCORRIGIBLE.

Pol.

“If at home, sir,

He’s all my exercise, my mirth, my matter:

Now my sworn friend, and then mine enemy;

My parasite, my soldier, statesman, all;

He makes a July’s day short as December;

And, with his varying childness, cures in me

Thoughts that would thick my blood.”

Winter’s Tale, Act 1, Scene 2.