His life I gave him and did thereto add

My love, without retention or restraint,

All [his in] dedication; for his sake

Did I expose myself, pure [for] his love,

Into the danger of this adverse town;

Drew to defend him when he was beset:

Where being apprehended, his false cunning,

Not meaning to partake with me in danger,

Taught him to face me out of his acquaintance,

And grew a twenty years removed thing