How can I give it, when the man I have loved

More than all others, thinks that he is wronged

So bitterly, that he will starve and die

Rather than bear it? Is there any man

Will throw his life away for a light issue?

KING.

It is but fitting that you take his side

Until you understand how light an issue

Has put us by the ears. Three days ago

I yielded to the outcry of my courtiers—