To sweep your own name sweet in my esteem?

I tell you, I but listen to you now

Since now, perhaps, before I make an end,

He may step through the door and strike you down.

Be silent then for aye or speak at once.

Joseph.

And if ’twere so? I say not it is so,

But if it were? What other would it be

Than confirmation of the thing you feel,

Than noble proof he loves as ne’er before