But how meantime to live is fit,

Ask common sense; and what says it?

Submit, submit!

Scene VI.—On a Bridge.

Di. ’Tis gone, the fierce inordinate desire,

The burning thirst for action—utterly;

Gone, like a ship that passes in the night

On the high seas: gone, yet will come again:

Gone, yet expresses something that exists.

Is it a thing ordained, then? is it a clue