The conclusion is growing … I feel sure, my lord,

this august court will entertain the plea

Not Guilty by reason of death.

I can say no more except that for the record

I add that all the crimes since all the times he

died will be due to the breath

of unknown others, sweating in theri guilt

while my client Henry’s brow of stainless steel

rests free, as well it may,

of all such turbulence, whereof not built

Henry lies clear as any onion-peel

in any sandwich, say.

He spiced us: there, my lord, the wicked fault

lodges: we judged him when we did not know

and we did judge him wrong,

lying incapable of crime save salt

preservative in cases here below

adduced. Not to prolong