Of my approach, and tell them, for yourself,

I will not look too strictly at my house:

An absent lord trains careless servitors.

I wish no bonfires lighted on the hills,

No peaceful cannon roused to mimic wrath;

Say, I have seen cities burn, and shouting ranks

Of solid steel-clad footmen melt away

Before a hundred pieces. Say I come for rest,

Not jollity; and all I seek

Is a calm welcome in their lighted eyes,