Franconia; but nor why he left nor when:

His mind to live a forester and be

Enfellowed in the Duke of Brunswick's train

Of buff and green; and so to his estate

Even now was bound, a youth of twenty-three.

And when he ceased the fire in his eyes

Worked restless as a troubled animal's,

Which hate-enraged can burn a steady flame,

Brute merciless. And thus I mused with me,

When he had ceased to fulminate at state,