Why, look ye, man! Here thou dost go a-junketing through all the earth to find a chance to show unequalled courage, and when kind Fate doth shove it underneath thy very nose, thou turn'st away, lamenting.

I've heard of those who know not beans although the bag be opened, and now I laugh to see one of that very kind before me." Then dropping his unseemly mirth and all his wanton raillery, he stood up with his face a-shine, and spake as if he were the heaven-sent messenger of hope.
"Rise up!" he cried.

"_Knowest thou not it takes a thousandfold more courage to sheathe the sword when one is all on fire for action than to go forth against the greatest foe ?_ Here is thy chance to show the world the kingliest spirit it has ever known! Here is a phalanx thou mayst meet all single-handed--a daily struggle with a host of hurts that cut thee to the quick.

This sheathed sword upon thy side will stab thee hourly with deeper thrusts than any adversary can give.

'Twill be a daily 'minder of thy thwarted hopes.