Flusht with the promise of first victory,

Push’d headlong to the last; not knowing, fool!

How in love’s world the shadow of disappointment

Exactly dogs the substance of success.

In fine, one night I stole into her house,

Into her chamber; and with every vow

Of marriage on my tongue; as easy then

To utter, as thereafter to forswear,

When in the very jewel I coveted

Very compliance seem’d to make a flaw