Him canst thou comfort, ease, relieve, defend;

But if he will thy friendly checks forego,

Thou art, oh? woe for me, his deadliest foe?”

TALE XV.

ADVICE; OR THE ’SQUIRE AND THE PRIEST.

His hours fill’d up with riots, banquets, sports -

And never noted in him any study,

Any retirement, any sequestration.

SHAKESPEARE, Henry V.

I will converse with iron-witted fools,