As you are, pricked on by your popes and kings,

Would bring the sweat into that brow of yours!"

To Rafael's!—And indeed the arm is wrong.

I hardly dare ... yet, only you to see,

Give the chalk here—quick, thus the line should go!

Ay, but the soul! he 's Rafael! rub it out!

Still, all I care for, if he spoke the truth,

(What he? why, who but Michel Agnolo?

Do you forget already words like those?)

If really there was such a chance, so lost,—