All the world's cark and care, though a bird's nest

Were a superfluous burden: notably

Hath he been pressed, as if his age were youth,

From to-day's dawn till now that day departs,

Trying one question with true sweat of soul,

"Shall the said doomed man fitlier die or live?"

When a straw swallowed in his posset, stool

Stumbled on where his path lies, any puff

That 's incident to such a smoking flax,

Hurries the natural end and quenches him!