Indeed the long career of usefulness

Presumably before him: while her lord,

Whose fleeting life is forfeit to the law,—

What mercy to the culprit if, by just

The gift of such a full certificate

Of his immitigable guiltiness,

She stifled in him the absurd conceit

Of murder as it were a mere revenge

—Stopped confirmation of that jealousy

Which, did she but acknowledge the first flaw,