Accents uncertain:

"Time to taste life," another would have said,

"Up with the curtain!"

This man said rather, "Actual life comes next?

Patience a moment!

Grant I have mastered learning's crabbed text,

Still there 's the comment.

Let me know all! Prate not of most or least,

Painful or easy!

Even to the crumbs I 'd fain eat up the feast,