One more enlarged distorted false fool's-face,

Until some glassy nothing grown as big

Send by a touch the imperishable to suds,—

No, in renouncing fame, my loss was light,

Choosing obscurity, my chance was well!"


Didst ever touch such ampollosity

As the monk's own bubble, let alone its spite?

What's his speech for, but just the fame he flouts?

How he dares reprehend both high and low,