Here, there and everywhere in the vile place
Abandoned to him when their backs were turned,
Found—furnishing a last and beat regale—
All the love-letters bandied 'twixt the pair
Since the first timid trembling into life
O' the love-star till its stand at fiery full.
Mad prose, mad verse, fears, hopes, triumph, despair,
Avowal, disclaimer, plans, dates, names,—was naught
Wanting to prove, if proof consoles at all,
That this had been but the fifth act o' the piece