Of several ribands, and some thousand peasants.[522]
LXXX.
Catherine was generous,—all such ladies are:
Love—that great opener of the heart and all
The ways that lead there, be they near or far,
Above, below, by turnpikes great or small,—
Love—(though she had a cursed taste for War,
And was not the best wife unless we call
Such Clytemnestra, though perhaps 't is better
That one should die—than two drag on the fetter)—