There's no fool's-freak here, naught to soundly swinge,

Only a man in earnest, you'll so praise

And pay and prate about, that earth shall ring!

Had thought possessed the Referendary

His jewel-ease at home was left ajar,

What would be wrong in running, robes awry,

To be beforehand with the pilferer?

What talk then of indecent haste? Which means,

That both these, each in his degree, would do

Just that—for a comparative nothing's sake,