Virginity for that same husband's sake

Because of whom I die now—fare thee well!

Since nowise do I hate thee: me alone

Hast thou destroyed; for, shrinking to betray

Thee and my spouse, I die: but thee, O bed,

Some other woman shall possess as wife—

Truer, no! but of better fortune, say!'

—So falls on, kisses it till all the couch

Is moistened with the eyes' sad overflow.

But when of many tears she had her fill,