Whether ’tis nobler on th’ whole person to suffer

The grime and lankness of the long-worn garment,

Or to take soap against a siege of stain-spots,

And by stout scrubbing, end them. To wash—to scrub

No more; and by that toil to say, we end

The mud-splash, and the thousand various soils

Which linen catches—’tis a consummation

With both fists to be strove for! To wash, to dry,

To dry, perchance in frost—ay there’s the rub!

For in that chance of frost what coals must burn,