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,