And said ‘Dear brother, live, and be a king’?

[♦] Who told me, when we both lay in the field

[115] Frozen almost to death, how he did lap me

[♦] Even in his own garments, and gave himself,

[♦] All thin and naked, to the numb cold night?

All this from my remembrance brutish wrath

Sinfully pluck’d, and not a man of you

120 Had so much grace to put it in my mind.

But when your carters or your waiting-vassals

Have done a drunken slaughter and defaced