Now I maintain that this bold metaphor is admirable, and the natural history of the stage has no occasion on a day of allegory and royal epithalamium to take exception at a dolphin who is son to a lion.

• 我郑重地说，这个大胆的隐喻着实令人钦佩，既然正逢一个大喜的日子，理应妙语连珠，礼赞王家婚庆，故这种戏剧形式的博物志，就丝毫不会对狮子生个海豚儿子而深感不安了。