The Messenger: If anyone dared to speak to him, unaddressed, saying, "Who are you?"
He looked at him a moment, and answered, "I am what I seem to be. You are not mistaken."
"Oh!" one said to him, "Oh, war!
When shall we have peace?"
"You wish to live in peace?"
"Surely," he answered, "Yes, indeed."
"Coward, you cannot! Even now they come to rob you of your goods
And the man is at hand who will take you, caught by the scruff of the neck, and geld you like a domestic animal."
And the questioner said, "What can I do?"
"Fight!" he answered, "Resist!"