Of something which your poets cannot paint,

And (if it were not wisdom to love virtue),

For which Philosophy might barter Wisdom;

And giving so much happiness, deserves

A little in return. I would not have her

Break her heart with a man who has none to break!

Or wither on her stalk like some pale rose380

Deserted by the bird she thought a nightingale,

According to the Orient tale.[199] She is——

Ulr. The daughter of dead Stralenheim, your foe: