And my pet project of a Suez Canal,

With this regard its current fails to take;

Let Northcote take his action.

Aramis.


Canal, or no canal: that is the question:

Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer

The wrath of shipowners who’d mend their fortune,

Or take upon us more Egyptian troubles,

And by “investing” vex them? To spend; to spout;