Then, crying from her door, “Farewell till eve,”

True to her sex, unanswer’d yet assured,

The woman left.

XIII.

And so my will was caught,

The net so deftly drawn, I flounder’d first,

Then, resting, smiled. We fight the hydra, we,

Who war against our nature. Every head

That reason clove would rise redoubled there.

Forsooth, my rudeness:—that should be explain’d;