A vulgar mind might credit to my score.

I have done my best, and that’s the utmost good

A man can do; and if a better man

Had in my place done more, ’tis perverse Fortune

That placed me ill. Thus far I argue with you,

Who look on me askance, and think my heart

Is tainted; as if I would in such case

Do such thing, as—poison my brother at table,

Contrive to kill my mother: ’Tis so far

From possible, that to my ears the words