I am that cunning infidel

By men called CHANCE,—you know me well.

It is through me you met your wives;

Through me your harvest blights or thrives;

And one and all, through me, to-day

Hither you came to see the play,

Which if your favor still you lend,

As now, so on until the end,

You shall be taught what way a King

Though a sublime and awful thing