Take lives—take wives—take aught except men's purses:
As Machiavel shows those in purple raiment,
Such is the shortest way to general curses.[556]
They hate a murderer much less than a claimant
On that sweet ore which everybody nurses.—
Kill a man's family, and he may brook it,
But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket:
LXXX.
So said the Florentine: ye monarchs, hearken
To your instructor. Juan now was borne,