Will but defiance and revenge produce.
“Unjust and cruel, insolent and proud!”
He said, indignant; and he spoke aloud.
“‘Butler’! and ‘servant’! Gentlest of thy sex,
Thou wouldst not thus a man who loved thee vex; 680
Thou wouldst not thus to vile report give ear, }
Nor thus enraged for fancied crimes appear— }
I know not what, dear maid!—if thy soft smiles were here.” }
And then, that instant, there appear’d the maid,
By his sad looks in her approach dismay’d;