For the wrong way of working, you should ask

"What fool conjectures that profession means

Performance? that who goes behind the scenes

Finds,—acting over,—still the soot-stuff screens

Othello's visage, still the self-same cloak's

Bugle-bright-blackness half reveals half chokes

Hamlet's emotion, as ten minutes since?"

No, each resumes his garb, stands—Moor or prince—

Decently draped: just so with statesmanship!

All outside show, in short, is sham—why wince?