But by the breath of thy divinity;

Nor in the starry pole, nor in the sea,

Save what the wicked in their foolish minds

Devise: but thou dost order the disorderly,

And even unlovely things are dear to thee.

Let fools hear that, thou second Hercules!

I should not fret; nay, and I shall not fret . . .

There’s poignancy in the utterance of this Greek

That I attain not: whether it be the man

Lived nearer to his nature, or that my art