To keep self-abnegation sweet. Then comes

The hour of trial, when lo! the suadent scale

Sinks instant, the deterrent kicks the beam,

The heavier falls, the lighter mounts (as much

A thing of law with motives as with plums),

And I, forsooth, must die simply because

Dame Nature, having chosen so to load

The dishes, did not choose suspend for me

The gravitation of the moral world."

How would the kitchen-wench reply? Why thus