Ah! had I my desire, so should it be.

GODFREY

Nay, but I know this melancholy mood:

’Twas your poetic fancy when a boy.

RICHARD

For Fancy cannot live on real food:

In youth she will despise familiar joy

To dwell in mournful shades; as they grow real,

Then buildeth she of joy her far ideal.

GODFREY