With equal answer, that I owe to thee,

And thine instruction.—First thou didst allege

Mæcenas and Agrippa: but from them

Divine Augustus took not back their wealth;

Which if they won in danger, yet I doubt not

Thy weapons and thy hand would not have wanted

Had I had need of them. But what I needed

That gavest thou; such reason and good counsel

As shall abide with me while my life lasteth.

Those goods material, which thou hadst of me,