The globe, a lever like the hand and head

Of—"Men of Action," as the Jongleurs said,

—"The Great Men," in the people's dialect?

And not a moment did this scorn affect

Arouses him at last, to some purpose,

Sordello: scorn the poet? They, for once,

Asking "what was," obtained a full response.

Bid Naddo think at Mantua, he had but

To look into his promptuary, put

Finger on a set thought in a set speech: