To bear such horrors, but she must submit.”

“But for three days, my love! three days at most,”

“Enough for me; I then shall be a ghost.”

“My honour’s pledged!” - “Oh! yes, my dearest life,

I know your honour must outweigh your wife;

But ere this absence have you sought a friend?

I shall be dead - on whom can you depend?

Let me one favour of your kindness crave,

Grant me the stone I mention’d for my grave.”

“Nay, love, attend - why, bless my soul! I say