Because my limbs, though crooked, are strongly framed?

Bah, there are tall straight men as strong as I.

Because my heart goes with my fealty?

Why half my wage would buy the heart and soul

Of twenty well-proportioned servitors.

Because by reason of my face and form

I do not count as man? Yes! I’m an ape!

A crippled, crumpled, devil-faced baboon,

Who claims a place amid this loveliness

By title of his sheer deformity!