It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match’d with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race,
SCENE II. Venice. A street. Enter LAUNCELOTLAUNCELOTCertainly my conscience will serve me to run fromthis Jew my master. The fiend is at mine elbow andtempts me saying to me ‘Gobbo,
About the Poet James Russell Lowell was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the Fireside Poets, a group of New England writers who were