Each eye should see her, and each heart upbraid;

One way remain’d - the way the Levite took,

Who without mercy could on misery look;

(A way perceiv’d by craft, approved by pride),

She cross’d and pass’d him on the other side.

TALE V.

THE PATRON.

It were all one,

That I should love a bright peculiar star,

And think to wed it; she is so much above me: