“In what but choice of company?” he said;

“No more you think of study, duty, church,

But waste the whole day long with one like this!—

Nay, check me not. I understand my words.—

This actress, though right artless in her way,

This actress here, would play”—

“With me!” I cried;

“This ‘actress!’” and I know not what I said;

But yet recall what kept him forcing in,

“You err!”—“You do me wrong!”—“You know her not!”—