But from themselves, direct from their own mouths.
Rhod.
You’re pleased to mock my questioning.
Kan.
No, no!
I speak in utter earnest. I stood by
While they set nails a-grubbing at the tables,
Digging their whetted teeth in their own lips
As though ’twere game and not their very flesh,
And took the oath which sure enough they’ll hold.