With useless penitence perplexed and haunted;[AI]
Beseeching she no further would refuse,
When, lo! he stumbled o'er a pair of shoes.
CLXXXI.
A pair of shoes![81]—what then? not much, if they
Are such as fit with ladies' feet, but these
(No one can tell how much I grieve to say)
Were masculine; to see them, and to seize,
Was but a moment's act.—Ah! well-a-day!