GENTLEMAN Contending4 with the fretful elements; Bids the wind blow the earth into the sea Or swell the curlèd waters ’bove the main6, That things might change or cease.
GENTLEMAN
[Folio] Contending with the fretful elements;
Bids the wind blow the earth into the sea
Or swell the curlèd waters ’bove the main,
That things might change or cease. [Cont. in Quarto] Tears his white hair,
Which the impetuous blasts with eyeless rage
Catch in their fury, and make nothing of,
Strives in his little world of man to out-scorn,
The to-and-fro-conflicting wind and rain:
This night — wherein the cubdrawn bear would couch,
The lion and the belly-pinchèd wolf Keep their fur dry, — unbonneted he runs,
And bids what will take all.
