Faults some may see, and others disbelieve;

'Tis all the same:—'twill never make me grieve;

Alaciel's mem'ry, it is very clear,

Can scarcely by it lose; there's naught to fear.

Two facts important I have kept in view,

In which the author fully I pursue;

The one—no less than eight the belle possessed,

Before a husband's sight her eyes had blessed;

The other is, the prince she was to wed

Ne'er seemed to heed this trespass on his bed,