"And take my purse! But,—speaking with respect,—

Need you a solace for the troubled nose?

Let everybody wipe his own himself!"

Sirs, tell me free and fair! Had things gone well

At the wayside inn: had I surprised asleep

The runaways, as was so probable,

And pinned them each to other partridge-wise,

Through back and breast to breast and back, then bade

Bystanders witness if the spit, my sword,

Were loaded with unlawful game for once—