The commonalty; this is an episode

In burgess-life,—why seek to aggrandize,

Idealize, denaturalize the class?

People talk just as if they had to do

With a noble pair that ... Excellency, your ear!

Stoop to me, Highness,—listen and look yourselves!

This Pietro, this Violante, live their life

At Rome in the easy way that 's far from worst

Even for their betters,—themselves love themselves,

Spend their own oil in feeding their own lamp