And seek their ruin that usurp’d our right?
The midwife wonder’d and the women cried
75 ‘O, Jesus bless us, he is born with teeth!’
And so I was; which plainly signified
That I should snarl and bite and play the dog.
Then, since the heavens have shaped my body so,
[♦] Let hell make crook’d my mind to answer it.
80 I have no brother, I am like no brother;
And this word ‘love,’ which greybeards call divine,
Be resident in men like one another