Nature cries out, "Take the first arms you find!"

Furor ministrat arma: where 's a stone?

Unde mî lapidem, where darts for me?

Unde sagittas? But subdue the bard

And rationalize a little. Eight months since,

Had we, or had we not, incurred your blame

For letting 'scape unpunished this bad pair?

I think I proved that in last paragraph!

Why did we so? Because our courage failed.

Wherefore? Through lack of arms to fight the foe: