I watch’d my opportunity, and one day,

When she was fast asleep, adroitly lopp’d

A lovely forelock from what seem’d her hair,

But was an hair-loom rather from her wig

Descended from a head that once was young

As I thought her. For, giving it the witch,

To work his charm with, in the dead of night,

When I was waiting for my love to come,

Into my bed-room the dead woman stalk’d

To whom the lock of hair had once belong’d,