The same for six years (during which the Huns

Kept off their fingers from us), till his sons

Put something in his liquor"—and so forth.

Then a new reign. Stay—"Take at its just worth"

(Subjoins an annotator) "what I give

As hearsay. Some think, John let Protus live

And slip away. 'T is said, he reached man's age

At some blind northern court; made, first a page,

Then tutor to the children; last, of use

About the hunting-stables. I deduce