She thought with some simplicity indeed;

But Innocence is bold even at the stake,

And simple in the World, and doth not need

Nor use those palisades by dames erected,

Whose virtue lies in never being detected.

LXII.

It was not that she feared the very worst:

His Grace was an enduring, married man,

And was not likely all at once to burst

Into a scene, and swell the clients' clan