Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!

Take lives—take wives—take aught except men's purses:

As Machiavel shows those in purple raiment,

Such is the shortest way to general curses.[556]They hate a murderer much less than a claimant

On that sweet ore which everybody nurses.—

Kill a man's family, and he may brook it,

But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket: