This chapter's epigraph is from a famous poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Longfellow's poem, "The Prince of Wales," is about a young man who is about to be killed by his own son. The prince asks his son why he is being killed, and the prince replies that he wants to save his own life. He asks the boy why he has to go through all of this trouble to save a life he doesn't really care about. The boy tells him that he's not worth saving, and that he just wants to go home and have sex with his wife. He tells the prince that his hair is white, but when he was talking to the prince, he saw the prince babbling with a man, and then the man ran away. He says that the prince came to fight him, and he just wanted to leave without saying anything to him. This is the prince's way of saying that he has no blood lust, and since he has been idling for a long time, it's just for his own good. He's going to stretch a bit, he says, since the prince is so weak. He wants to know why the prince can't fight with the men he used to fight with, and how he can fight with these young men when he has lost half of his strength. He points out that the young men are stronger than he is, and asks the prince if he thinks they're still living the old days, when they used to be stronger than him. The