There is an art which, in their piedness shares

With great creating nature.

Polixenes. Say, there be,

Yet nature is made better by no mean,

But nature makes that mean; so o’er that art

Which you say adds to nature, is an art

That nature makes: you see, sweet maid, we marry

A gentler scyon to the wildest stock,

And make conceive a bark of baser kind

By bud of nobler race. This is an art