The last sole scion of a thousand sires
(For I was then the last), it hurt me less160
Than to behold my boy and my boy's mother
Excluded in their innocence from what
My faults deserved-exclusion; although then
My passions were all living serpents,[161] and
Twined like the Gorgon's round me.
[A loud knocking is heard.
Jos.Hark!
Wer.A knocking!