And I travel through every prince's land.

I look about me with care,

Whether I can make a living there.

If I had every lassie's good-will,

And every master's craft and skill,

And all the wit of my friend the beadle,

I could build a house on the point of a needle;

But, as I can do nothing of the kind,

I must first have my house design'd.

He who would build on roads and streets