Set her on to conceive and execute

The preferable plague: how sure they probe,—

These jades, the sensitivest soft of man!

The long black hair was wound now in a wisp,

Crowned sorrow better than the wild web late:

No more soiled dress, 't is trimness triumphs now,

For how should malice go with negligence?

The frayed silk looked the fresher for her spite!

There was an end to springing out of bed,

Praying me, with face buried on my feet,