As his mates do, the midge and the nit,

—Through minuteness, to wit.

V.

Then a humour more great took its place

At the thought of his face:

The droop, the low cares of the mouth,

The trouble uncouth

’Twixt the brows, all that air one is fain

To put out of its pain.

And, “no!” I admonished myself,