Now, henceforth, and forever!" So smiled he.

VI

Good: but the minister, the crafty one,

Got ear of what was doing—all but done—

Not sooner, though, than the king's very self,

Warned by the sister on how sheer a shelf

Royalty's ship was like to split. "I bar

The abomination! Mix with muck my star?

Shall earth behold prodigiously enorbed

An upstart marsh-born meteor sun-absorbed?