The lady told me nothing of the banquet,

Yet each man sat about my table

That as I entered, thinking how strange

The train of innominate courtiers

After me, they insipidly quarreled

Such that the day would be encompassed

With petty arguments and courtly matters.

But I am given to an entry:

Remarking on the flavor of a cherry,

I put forth art and all it’s uses:

How heavily the Greeks engaged me.

Listen what their ambassador reported:

In the east they have forgotten how to play,

And commoners content their souls either with

A shallow modesty or sheepishness -

What could I follow it? I fell to dreaming:

My mind did span the ocean twice at breakfast

In search of playful actors, sportive crew,

But dreams do peddle to our hearts we’re free -

My mind began to render a far extravagancy

Wherein I felt the wildness I go to.

Yet therein I recovered myself

Upon my great devotion to the work.

Thus finished with breakfast, I gave gratitude

For their counsel, vowed to receive their notes,

And then informed them of some crisis

And it required me.