If through thy means it might be stretched again,

Unscissored of what Destiny ordain,

Back in thy face I'd fling it as in vain."

Then the chief Chamberlain: "O vilest one

Of all the Arabs! wilt thou not be done

Bandying thy baseness with the Ruler of

The Faithful? thou, with wordy filth enough

Within thy madman mouth to fill a jakes!

Viler than dirt that one from out it rakes,

Here's more for thee!" and spat into his face.