Cui Bono?

NAY, vex me not with dead theologies,

With creeds outworn and vain polemic strife;

To solve the riddles of some future life

Why chill my soul with stark philosophies?

What then to me is Aristoteles,

Plato, or he who had the shrewish wife

(Small blame to her!), or Pyrrho’s doubtings, rife

With contradiction’s maziest subtleties?