Mar.

Ah, I know!

It was my part, for every kiss I gave

To haggle in advance for any head

That had mispleased you, and at last when none

Was left to cross you but his own, to spur him

To his self-slaughter; or if that should fail,

To couch and spy a chance in the still night

And subtly second Judith’s catlike deed.

Then would you have been proud to call me child!