That figure in this little history,

She only has a claim to my respect,

And one-eyed, in her French phrase, rules the blind.

Miranda hardly did his best with life:

He might have opened eye, exerted brain,

Attained conception as to right and law

In certain points respecting intercourse

Of man with woman—love, one likes to say;

Which knowledge had dealt rudely with the claim

Of Clara to play representative