Not finished! What, 'tis only just begun?
Well, that's a pity. Four years seems some time
To gape before a canvas with a brush.
Beg pardon. This is what I meant to say:
That since you could not paint her in her life,
You'll scarce be more successful now she's
dead . . .
You did not know? . . . Why, she's been dead
three months.