Committing me unto my brother’s love;

Who led me instantly unto his cave,

145 There stripp’d himself, and here upon his arm

The lioness had torn some flesh away,

Which all this while had bled; and now he fainted

And cried, in fainting, upon Rosalind.

Brief, I recover’d him, bound up his wound;

150 And, after some small space, being strong at heart,

He sent me hither, stranger as I am,

To tell this story, that you might excuse