“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!”—