I look'd at awful quoif and scarlet gown

Through others' optics, not my own:

Untie the Gordian knot that will,

I see no rhetoric at all

In them that learnedly can brawl,

And fill with mercenary breath the spacious hall;

Let me be peaceable, let me be still.

The solitary Tishbite heard the wind,

With strength and violence combin'd,

110That rent the mountains, and did make