And then break out as if time's clock still clanged.

You have forfeited your chance, and flat you fall

Into the commonplace category

Of men bound to go softly all their days,

Obeying law."

Now, which way make response?

What was the answer Guido gave, himself?

—That so to argue came of ignorance

How honor bears a wound: "For, wound," said he,

"My body, and the smart soon mends and ends: