All other views he banish’d from his soul,
And let this tyrant vex him and control;
Life he despised, and had that Lord defied,
But that he long’d for Vengeance e’er he died.
The law he spurn’d, the combat he declined,
And to his purpose all his soul resign’d.
Full fifteen months had pass’d, and we began
To have some hope of the returning man; 430
Now to his steward of his small affairs
He wrote, and mention’d leases and repairs;