Responsibilities, and other poems - W. B. Yeats

And all that I know, I know.'

But I will not speak, I will run away.

[He goes out.

NOTES

Prefatory Poem

'Free of the ten and four' is an error I cannot now correct, without more rewriting than I have a mind for. Some merchant in Villon, I forget the reference, was 'free of the ten and four.' Irish merchants exempted from certain duties by the Irish Parliament were, unless memory deceives me again for I am writing away from books, 'free of the eight and six.'