A cloak must shear from the slaughter’d deer,

To keep the cold away.”—

“O Richard! if my brother died,

’Twas but a fatal chance;

For darkling[245] was the battle tried,

And fortune sped the lance.

“If pall and vair[246] no more I wear,

Nor thou the crimson sheen,

As warm, we’ll say, is the russet[247] gray,

As gay the forest-green.[248]