And manufacture of a model me,

Me fifty-fold, a prince without a flaw,—

Why, there 's no social grade, the sordidest,

My embryo potentate should blink and 'scape.

King, all the better he was cobbler once,

He should know, sitting on the throne, how tastes

Life to who sweeps the doorway. But life 's hard,

Occasion rare; you cut probation short,

And, being half-instructed, on the stage

You shuffle through your part as best you can,