This world 's too hard for my explaining.

The same wise judge of matters equine

Who still preferred some slim four-year-old

To the big-boned stock of mighty Berold,

And, for strong Cotnar, drank French weak wine,

He also must be such a lady's scorner!

Smooth Jacob still robs homely Esau:

Now up, now down, the world's one see-saw.

—So, I shall find out some snug corner

Under a hedge, like Orson the wood-knight,