Nor changed to gall the honey of his life;

Some white Othello who with feather bed

Had smothered not, his unoffending wife.

The applause of listening houses to command,

The critics smile and malice to despise,

To win reward from lord and lady’s hand,

And the approval of the thundering skies,

Their parents hindered, and did thus o’erthrow

The brilliant hopes that in their bosom rose

To tear Macready’s laurels from his brow,