Of holy cambric, shall disgrace the swan!

Mine be the task' ... and so forth! Fool? not he!

Cunning in flavors, rather! What but sour

Suspected makes the sweetness doubly sweet,

And what stings love from faint to flamboyant

But the fear-sprinkle? Even horror helps—

Love's flame in me by such recited wrong

Drenched, quenched, indeed? It burns the fiercelier thence!'

Why, I have known men never love their wives

Till somebody—myself, suppose—had 'drenched