I can write, I can grant it in your name,

Or, what is better, lead you to his house.

Your husband dashes you against the stones;

This man would place each fragment in a shrine:

You hate him, love your husband!"

I returned,

"It is not true I love my husband,—no,

Nor hate this man. I listen while you speak,

—Assured that what you say is false, the same:

Much as when once, to me a little child,