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,