Touched by the bedside, for accompaniment!

Does this give umbrage to a husband? Death

To the fool, and to the priest impunity!

But no impunity to any friend

So simply over-loyal as these four

Who made religion of their patron's cause,

Believed in him and did his bidding straight,

Asked not one question but laid down the lives

This Pope took,—all four lives together make

Just his own length of days,—so, dead they lie,