Or scatter with an open hand, had not

Our heady craft commended wasteful virtues.

And when that story’s finished, shake your coat

Where little jewels gleam on it, and say,

A herdsman, sitting where the pigs had trampled,

Made up a song about enchanted kings,

Who were so finely dressed, one fancied them

All fiery, and women by the churn

And children by the hearth caught up the song

And murmured it, until the tailors heard it.