And nourish thee with simplest food;

Live with the brute a brute, and count it not too low

To dung the corn-fields thine own hands shall mow;

Than this I know on earth no med’cine stronger,

To make, by fourscore years, both soul and body younger!

Faust.

I was not trained to this—was never made

To labour with the pick-axe and the spade;

Such narrow round of life I may not brook.

Mephistopheles.