But if Apollo take his gout away,
That he, his nimble fingers may apply;
Apollo's self will envy at his play,
And all the world applaud his minstrelsy!
Then Dotage is no weakness of the Mind,
But of the Sense; for if the Mind did waste;
In all old men, we should this wasting find,
When they some certain term of years had past.
But most of them, even to their dying hour,