To publish them—both common female faults—

Was it not weakness also to make known,

For importunity, that is for nought,

Wherein consisted all thy strength and safety? 780

To what I did thou showd'st me first the way.

But I to enemies revealed, and should not;

Nor should'st thou have trusted that to woman's frailty:

Ere I to thee, thou to thyself wast cruel.

Let weakness, then, with weakness come to parle, 785

So near related, or the same of kind;