So much as yours was service: no whit more.

I was born here, so was Luitolfo; both

At one time, much with the same circumstance

Of rank and wealth; and both, up to this night

Of parting company, have side by side

Still fared, he in the sunshine—I, the shadow.

"Why?" asks the world. "Because," replies the world

To its complacent self, "these playfellows,

Who took at church the holy-water drop

Each from the other's finger, and so forth,—