And now, behold how my kingdom is shaken and rent!" he pointed with so touching a smile, and so simple a sadness, to the broken engine, that Richard was moved.
"Thou lovest this, thy toy?
I can comprehend that love for some dumb thing that we have toiled for.

Ay!" continued the prince, thoughtfully,--"ay! I have noted myself in life that there are objects, senseless as that mould of iron, which if we labour at them wind round our hearts as if they were flesh and blood.

So some men love learning, others glory, others power.

Well, man, thou lovest that mechanical?
How many years hast thou been about it ?" "From the first to the last, twenty-five years, and it is still incomplete." "Um!" said the prince, smiling, "Master Warner, thou hast read of the judgment of Solomon,--how the wise king discovered the truth by ordering the child's death ?" "It was indeed," said Adam, unsuspectingly, "a most shrewd suggestion of native wit and clerkly wisdom." "Glad am I thou approvest it, Master Warner," said Richard.

And as he spoke the tormentor reappeared with a smith, armed with the implements of his trade.
"Good smith, break into pieces this stubborn iron; bare all its receptacles; leave not one fragment standing on the other! 'Delenda est tua Carthago,' Master Warner.