These be the tools wherewith priests manage men,"

Now, here take breath and ask,—which bird o' the brace

Decoyed the other into clapnet? Who

Was fool, who knave? Neither and both, perchance.

There was a bargain mentally proposed

On each side, straight and plain and fair enough;

Mind knew its own mind: but when mind must speak,

The bargain have expression in plain terms,

There came the blunder incident to words,

And in the clumsy process, fair turned foul.