Kan.

Is it not mine?

Thoas.

Who knows? I reckon in its end as well.

Forgive me, Sire; I have a laggard brain,

An understanding slow, and dull device,

Who calls me fool insults me not thereby.

But sturdy men have come to me ere now

To seek advice, and when I hemmed and hawed

They said to me:—“The simplest aged man