And David said to him, Canst thou bring me down to this company? And he said, Swear unto me by God, that thou wilt neither kill me, nor deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will bring thee down to this company.
Ver. 15. That thou wilt neither kill me.] For a traitor to mine own company, and therefore not fit to live. How the Turkish Basha punished him that betrayed the Rhodes to him, is well known. Men hate the traitor, though they love the treason: the traitor is odious, though the treason may be commodious.