Let the galled jade wince; our withers are unwrung.
Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
Waste not thy time in windy argument but let the matter drop.
I long To hear the story of your life, which must Take the ear strangely.
When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents.
For he was likely, had he been put on, to have proved most royally.