Since mutual quaffing of a philter; while

How guilty Guenevere on such could smile:—

She of Northgales and she of Eastland; and

She of the Out Isles Queen. A fairer band,

For sovereignty and love and loveliness,

Was not in any realm to grace and bless.

So Accolon informed them. In distress

Then quoth that knight: "Ay? see how fortune turns

And varies like an April day, that burns

Now welkins blue with calm; now scowls them down,