Since we are peers acknowledged,—scarcely peers,

Had I implanted any want of thine

Only my power could meet and gratify.'

No: rather hear, at man's indifference—

'Wherefore did I contrive for thee that ear

Hungry for music, and direct thine eye

To where I hold a seven-stringed instrument,

Unless I meant thee to beseech me play?'"


Once I saw a chemist take a pinch of powder