THE SAINT AND THE HUNCHBACK
 
 Hunchback. Stand up and lift your hand and bless
 A man that finds great bitterness
 In thinking of his lost renown.
 A Roman Caesar is held down
 Under this hump.
 
 Saint. God tries each man
 According to a different plan.
 I shall not cease to bless because
 I lay about me with the taws
 That night and morning I may thrash
 Greek Alexander from my flesh,
 Augustus Caesar, and after these
 That great rogue Alcibiades.
 
 Hunchback. To all that in your flesh have stood
 And blessed, I give my gratitude,
 Honoured by all in their degrees,
 But most to Alcibiades.