"But after my waking it was wondrous long Before I'd enough natural knowledge to understand what Do Well was, And so my wits waxed and waned till I went out of my mind. And some scorned my life--few would sanction it-- And looked on me as a lazy loafer, one loath to do honor To lords or ladies, or any other living person, Such as people in fur-pieces, with pendants of silver."