You are a wanton,—I a dupe, you think?

O Christ, what hinders that I kill her quick?"

Whereat he drew his sword and feigned a thrust.

All this, now,—being not so strange to me,

Used to such misconception day by day

And broken-in to bear,—I bore, this time.

More quietly than woman should perhaps;

Repeated the mere truth and held my tongue.

Then he said, "Since you play the ignorant,

I shall instruct you. This amour,—commenced