On Something, That Walks Somewhere

At court I met it, in clothes brave enough
  To be a courtier, and looks grave enough
To seem a statesman: as I near it came,
  It made me a great face. I asked the name.
"A lord," it cried, "buried in flesh and blood,
  And such from whom let no man hope least good,
For I will do none; and as little ill,
  For I will dare none." Good lord, walk dead still.