He, all unaided, wiped out the affront

With decent bloodshed and could face his friends,

Frolic it in the world's eye. Ay, such tale

Missed such applause, and by such oversight!

So, tired and footsore, those blood-flustered five

Went reeling on the road through dark and cold,

The few permissible miles, to sink at length,

Wallow and sleep in the first wayside straw,

As the other herd quenched, i' the wash o' the wave,

—Each swine, the devil inside him: so slept they,