And should you ask how she, a Sultan's bride,
Could risk or compass such strange phantasies,
This I must leave sultanas to decide:
Emperors are only husbands in wives' eyes,
And kings and consorts oft are mystified,[FM]
As we may ascertain with due precision,
Some by experience, others by tradition.
CXVI.
But to the main point, where we have been tending:—