"Heigho," yawned one day King Francis,

"Distance all value enhances!

When a man 's busy, why, leisure

Strikes him as wonderful pleasure:

'Faith, and at leisure once is he?

Straightway he wants to be busy.

Here we 've got peace; and aghast I 'm

Caught thinking war the true pastime.

Is there a reason in metre?

Give us your speech, master Peter!"