Replied the tongue, while the heart replied—

"If I spend the night with that devil twice,

May his window serve as my loop of hell

Whence a damned soul looks on paradise!

"I fly to the Duke who loves me well,

Sit by his side and laugh at sorrow

Ere I count another ave-bell.

"'T is only the coat of a page to borrow,

And tie my hair in a horse-boy's trim.

And I save my soul—but not to-morrow"—