To beg thy bellyful.

Ul.Now, lord Eurymachus,

I would that there might be a trial of labour

’Twixt us in springtide, when the days grow long,

In the deep grass; and I would have my scythe,

And thou another, striking blow for blow,

Fasting from dawn till dark: Or give us each

A plow, and for a team four sturdy oxen,

Frammard and toward to break up between us

A stubble of thirty acres; thou shouldst see