You are most fair—Ay, verily, a blend

Of lily and of rose that in their plot

Make variant weft of hues, by pranksome winds

In such a juggling mingle set to swaying

There’s not an eye can sift the shades apart.

Now you are red, now pale—and lo, you’re neither,

You’re both at once!

Lesbia.

What know you, then, of me?

That was your dream; I look far otherwise—