Mean creeping cares about the animal life?
Absit such homage to vile flesh and blood!
(May Gigia have remembered, nothing stings
Fried liver out of its monotony
Of richness, like a root of fennel, chopped
Fine with the parsley: parsley-sprigs, I said—
Was there need I should say "and fennel too"?
But no, she cannot have been so obtuse!
To our argument! The fennel will be chopped.)
From beast to man next mount we—ay, but, mind,