The expression, some such purpose in his eye—

Nascitur ordo! Every storm is laid,

And forth from plain each pleasant herb may peep,

Each bloom of wifehood in abeyance late:

(Confer a passage in the Canticles.)

But what if, as 't is wont with plant and wife,

Flowers—after a suppression to good end,

Still, when they do spring forth—sprout here, spread there,

Anywhere likelier than beneath the foot

O' the lawful good-man gardener of the ground?