His due of meat-and-drink-indulgence, cross

His palm with fee of the good-hand, beside,

As gallants use who go at large again!

For why? All honest Rome approved my part;

Whoever owned wife, sister, daughter,—nay,

Mistress,—had any shadow of any right

That looks like right, and, all the more resolved,

Held it with tooth and nail,—these manly men

Approved! I being for Rome, Rome was for me.

Then, there 's the point reserved, the subterfuge