soul, for in myself I feel no power or strength to release my body

from this strait in which I have of my own accord chosen to place it.

"Such, sirs, is the dismal story of my misfortune: say if it be

one that can be told with less emotion than you have seen in me; and

do not trouble yourselves with urging or pressing upon me what

reason suggests as likely to serve for my relief, for it will avail me

as much as the medicine prescribed by a wise physician avails the sick

man who will not take it. I have no wish for health without