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