An old and foolish custom, that if a man

Be wronged, or think that he is wronged, and starve

Upon another’s threshold till he die,

The common people, for all time to come,

Will raise a heavy cry against that threshold,

Even though it be the King’s.

OLDEST PUPIL.

My head whirls round;

I do not know what I am to think or say.

I owe you all obedience, and yet