during the definition.]
No, I don’t like you! I won’t take your hand,
For you have nothing that I want.
[Turns away.]
Mathematics. Nay, stand!
Stand thou and listen! Royal gifts have I,
Gifts men have sold their mortal lives to buy.
’Tis I that build the house, that count the tide;
I lay the rails, I span the waters wide;
I teach how planets sail the ether high;