Knows the faithless man, whose eyes,

With a forward friendship twinkling,

Fawn with watery love.[n62]

For me, I nothing hide. O King,

In my fancy’s picturing,

From the Muses far I deemed thee,

And thy soul not wisely helming

When thou drew’st the knife

For Helen’s sake, a woman, whelming

Thousands in ruin, rushing rashly