And trusting that, no stratagem again

Would be contrived to give her bosom pain.

Camillus said: my sentiments I'll speak;

Dissimulation I will never seek;

She who can proffer what should be denied,

Shall never be admitted by my side;

But if the place your approbation meet,

I won't refuse your lying at my feet.

FAIR Constance such reproof could not withstand,

'Twas well the poinard was not in her hand;