Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie."
CHAUCER
"Me, poor man! my library
Was dukedom large enough."—SHAKSPEARE.
Farewell, my trusty leathern-coated friends!
'Tis fitting, for a while, that we should part;
For I, as duty points, must shape my ends,
Obey what reason bids, and not my heart.
What though 'tis mine to listen in that Hall
Where England's peers, "grave, rev'rend, potent," sit,