The blowing hot and cold, sham policy,

Sure ague of the mind and nothing more,

Disease of the perception or the will,

That fain would hide in a fine name! Your choice,

Speak it out and condemn yourself thereby!"

Well, Leicester Square is not the Residenz:

Instead of shrugging shoulder, turning friend

The deaf ear, with a wink to the police—

I 'll answer—by a question, wisdom's mode.

How many years, o' the average, do men