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