And much endure, to wreak me on my foe.

Charles, I am wrong’d, insulted—nay, be still,

Nor look so fiercely—there are none to kill.

“I loved a lady, somewhat late in life,

Perhaps too late, and would have made a wife; 290

Nay, she consented; for consent I call

The mark’d distinction that was seen of all,

And long was seen; but when she knew my pain,

Saw my first wish her favour to obtain,

And ask her hand—no sooner was it ask’d,