Then would come pains in plenty, as you guess—

But guess not how the qualities most fit

For such an office, qualities I have,

Would little stead me, otherwise employed,

Yet prove of rarest merit only here.

Every one knows for what his excellence

Will serve, but no one ever will consider

For what his worst defect might serve: and yet

Have you not seen me range our coppice yonder

In search of a distorted ash?—I find