She slept not nor well fared, but restless dwelt

On her past life, and past afflictions felt; 520

The man she loved the brother and the foe

Of him she married!—It had wrought her woe:

Not that she loved, but pitied, and that now

Was, so she fear’d, infringement of her vow.

James too was civil, though she must confess

That his was not her kind of happiness;

That he would shoot the man who shot a hare

Was what her timid conscience could not bear;