I courteously declined, whereat he said:—
“If killing yonder fellow were my mood
I’d merely need for but an eight-days’ space
To have him at my board, and pile thereon
The tribute paid me by the earth and ocean.
He’d sit an-idling, peak away from famine,
And swear in dying he’d a bellyful!”
Herod.
Yes, yes, they know our breed! It must be altered.
What Moses merely bade, to shield this folk