Only lay down and let myself be clipped.

And when next day the cavalier who came—

(Tisbe had told me that the slim young man

With wings at head, and wings at feet, and sword

Threatening a monster, in our tapestry,

Would eat a girl else,—was a cavalier)—

When he proved Guido Franceschini,—old

And nothing like so tall as I myself,

Hook-nosed and yellow in a bush of beard,

Much like a thing I saw on a boy's wrist,