not?

_Doge_. You hear, she speaks wildly.

_Mar._ Not wisely, yet not wildly.

_Lor._ Lady! words
Uttered within these walls I bear no further 320
Than to the threshold, saving such as pass
Between the Duke and me on the State's service.
Doge! have you aught in answer?

_Doge_. Something from
The Doge; it may be also from a parent.

_Lor._ My mission _here_ is to the _Doge_.

_Doge_. Then say
The Doge will choose his own ambassador,
Or state in person what is meet; and for
The father----

_Lor._ I remember _mine_.--Farewell!
I kiss the hands of the illustrious Lady,
And bow me to the Duke. [_Exit_ LOREDANO.

_Mar._ Are you content? 330

_Doge_. I am what you behold.

_Mar._ And that's a mystery.

_Doge_. All things are so to mortals; who can read them
Save he who made? or, if they can, the few
And gifted spirits, who have studied long
That loathsome volume--man, and pored upon
Those black and bloody leaves, his heart and brain,[bf]
But learn a magic which recoils upon
The adept who pursues it: all the sins
We find in others, Nature made our own;
All our advantages are those of Fortune; 340
Birth, wealth, health, beauty, are her accidents,
And when we cry out against Fate, 'twere well
We should remember Fortune can take nought
Save what she _gave_--the rest was nakedness,
And lusts, and appetites, and vanities,
The universal heritage, to battle
With as we may, and least in humblest stations,[bg]
Where Hunger swallows all in one low want,[bh]
And the original ordinance, that man
Must sweat for his poor pittance, keeps all passions 350
Aloof, save fear of famine! All is low,
And false, and hollow--clay from first to last,
The Prince's urn no less than potter's vessel.
Our Fame is in men's breath, our lives upon
Less than their breath; our durance upon days[bi]
Our days on seasons; our whole being on
Something which is not _us_![56]--So, we are slaves,
The greatest as the meanest--nothing rests
Upon our will; the will itself no less[bj]
Depends upon a stra