Bound on our weary errands to and fro?”

—“Oh, pardon me, my friends,—my extreme pain

Hath robbed me of all sense and dulled my brain.

IX.

“But go and say in what an evil case

I find me now;—perchance they will relent

So far that I may in this noisome place,

For my short time remaining, not be pent;

Or at my prayer they will at least consent

That one of you may now continue nigh,