The narrator recalls how "They tried me with their books" when he first joined the Carmelites, and the criticism "Faces, arms, legs, and bodies like the true / As much as pea and pea!
The narrator of this poem recites the first two couplets of a song which he continuously makes puns on and begins "Flower o' the broom / Take away love, and our earth is a tomb!"  The narrator urges the listener to "not mistake an idle word / Spoke in a huff" after angrily shouting "Hang the fools!", and he concludes one section of this poem by stating "my lesson learned / The value and significance of flesh / I can't unlearn ten minutes afterward".  The narrator recalls how "They tried me with their books" when he first joined the Carmelites, and the criticism "Faces, arms, legs, and bodies like the true / As much as pea and pea! it's devil's game!" is used to reprimand him for a style which prompts the defacing of one of his paintings.  The narrator states "You need not clap your torches to my face" upon his apprehension by watchmen and tells them that he is "one, sir, who is lodging with a friendÂ…MasterÂ—aÂ…Cosimo of the Medici".  FTP, name this dramatic monologue contained in the collection Men and Women and delivered by the titular Renaissance painter, a work of Robert Browning.
The narrator of this poem recites the first two couplets of a song which he continuously makes puns on and begins
Fra Lippo Lippi