"I have my taste too, and tread no such step!

You choose the glorious life, and may, for me!

I like the lowest of life's appetites,—

So you judge,—but the very truth of joy

To my own apprehension which decides.

Call me knave and you get yourself called fool!

I live for greed, ambition, lust, revenge;

Attain these ends by force, guile: hypocrite,

To-day perchance to-morrow recognized

The rational man, the type of common sense."