XI

What price should you impose, for instance, on repute,

Good fame, your own good fame and family's to boot?

Stay start of quick moustache, arrest the angry rise

Of eyebrow! All I asked is answered by surprise.

Now tell me: are you worth the cost of a cigar?

Go boldly, enter booth, disburse the coin at bar

Of doorway where presides the master of the troop,

And forthwith you survey his Graces in a group,

Live Picture, picturesque no doubt and close to life: