Must wear the mask of theft! But to sum up

The story of my sorrows and my sins

That have made me a criminal, and him

Almost a beggar;—

In the full hey-day of my wilfulness

There lived a lady near, in whom methought

Those ancient enemies, wit, modesty,

And beauty, all were reconciled; to her,

Casting my coarser pleasures in the rear,

I did devote myself—first with mute signs,