The poetic does not misrepresent the speech one half so much as the speech misrepresents the soul.

“I cannot betray you, but I might betray myself. Come, come! wait and see me bet…”

“Charity is the power of defending that which we know to be indefensible. Hope i…”

“And well may God with the serving-folkCast in His dreadful lot;Is not He too a …”

“I don't want the universe broken up just yet," drawled the Marquis. "I want to …”