As Jove himself does, Jove would [ne’er] be quiet,

For every pelting, petty officer

[Would] use his heaven for thunder.

Nothing but thunder! Merciful [Heaven],

115 Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt

[Split’st] the unwedgeable and gnarled oak

Than the soft myrtle: [but] man, [proud] man,

Drest in a little brief authority,

Most ignorant of what he’s most assured,

120 His [glassy] essence, like an angry ape,