But one sole moment wrought for our undoing:

When that we read of lover so kind-hearted

Kissing the smile so coveted before,

He that from me shall never more be parted

Kissed me with lip to lip, trembling all o’er.

The broker of our vows, it was the lay,

And he who wrote—that day we read no more.’

The other spirit, while the first did say

These words, so moanèd, that with soft remorse

As death had stricken me, I swooned away,