Verse 36

देहेनापि वियुज्येऽहं भूत्वा जन्मशतान्यपि ।मित्रकाय मया यत्त्वं त्यज्यसे चिरबान्धवः

In plain words

"I part even from the body, though we have been together through hundreds of births. O friend-body, whom I now leave, my companion of so long —"