With words that I picked up from time to time....

There was this further thing: I am a man,

So say they, who accepts the dying creed

That woman's love is lawless and a toy

When given if no priest has sanctified it—

Not quite, perhaps. The point is further on.

In any case 'tis this: that this belief,

Mine or part mine, and coloring my acts,

Shadowed no whit the brow of Lady Claire.