I bade you visit me, when the last place

My tyrant would have turned suspicious at,

Or cared to seek you in, was ... why say, where?

But now all 's changed: beside, the season 's past

At the villa,—wants the master's eye no more.

Anyhow, I beseech you, stay away

From the window! He might well be posted there."

I wrote—"You raise my courage, or call up

My curiosity, who am but man.

Tell him he owns the palace, not the street