But thou wilt make it better later on.

Yet e’en this clownish form can serve thy soul.

It doth not have to spend much energy

In showing thee that which it now still is.

Pay close attention to the Guardian’s speech:

Its tone is mournful and its pathos marked,

Allow not this: for then he will disclose

From whom today he borrows to excess.

Johannes:

Then e’en the content of his speech deceives?