Chapter 500 No.500

Will the pedant name her next?

Crabbèd with a crabbèd text

Sits he in his study nook,

With his elbow on a book,

And with stately crossèd knees,

And a wrinkle deeply thrid

Through his lowering brow,

Caused by making proofs enow

That Plato in "Parmenides"

Meant the same Spinoza did,-

Or, that an hundred of the groping