These were his rapid thoughts, and then he spoke.
“I make a promise, and will not revoke;
You are my judge in what is fit and right,
And I obey you—bid me love or fight;
Yet had I rather, so the act could meet
With your concurrence, not to play the cheat; 360
In a fair cause”——“Charles, fighting for your king,
Did you e’er judge the merits of the thing?
Show me a monarch who has cause like mine,
And yet what soldier would his cause decline?”