The neck of ... who but this same Ecelin

That must recoil when the best days begin!

Recoil? that's naught; if the recoiler leaves

His name for me to fight with, no one grieves:

But he must interfere, forsooth, unlock

His cloister to become my stumbling-block

Just as of old! Ay, ay, there 't is again—

The land's inevitable Head—explain

The reverences that subject us! Count

These Ecelins now! Not to say as fount,