Then lead me to my cot again!”

TALE XI.
THE MERCHANT.

I.

Lo! one appears, to whom if I should dare

To say farewell, the lordly man would stare,

Would stretch his goodly form some inches higher,

And then, without a single word, retire;

Or from his state might haply condescend

To doubt his memory—“Ha! your name, my friend?”

He is the master of these things we see: