Rather than lose the spotless name of maid!—
Faintly, methought, she spoke; for all the while
She bid me not believe her, with a smile.
Then die, said I: She still denied;
And is it thus, thus, thus, she cried,
You use a harmless maid?—and so she died!
V.
I waked, and straight I knew,
I loved so well, it made my dream prove true:
Fancy, the kinder mistress of the two,