Therefore, I say, I 'll serve you, how you please—
If you like,—fight you, as you seem to wish—
(The kinder of me that, in sober truth,
I never dreamed I did you any harm) ...
Gau. —Or, kinder still, you 'll introduce, no doubt,
His merits to the Prince who 's just at hand,
And let no hint drop he 's made Chancellor
And Chamberlain and Heaven knows what beside!
Clug. [To Valence.] You stare, young sir, and threaten! Let me say,
That at your age, when first I came to court,