“Would we were masters now, if but to try
Their present lessons on our Pagan friends here,”
Said Juan—swallowing a heart-burning sigh:
“Heaven help the scholar, whom his fortune sends here!”
“Perhaps we shall be one day, by and by,”
Rejoined the other, “when our bad luck mends here;
Meantime (yon old black eunuch seems to eye us)
I wish to G‑d that somebody would buy us.