Stay, as you will—do any thing—but stay;
Be, I dispute not, steward—what you will,
Take your own name, but be my Brother still.
And hear me, Richard! if I should offend,
Assume the patron, and forget the friend;
If aught in word or manner I express
That only touches on thy happiness; 500
If I be peevish, humorsome, unkind,
Spoil’d as I am by each subservient mind;
For I am humour’d by a tribe who make