At statecraft. Since my right in you seemed lost,

I stung myself to teach you, to your cost,

What you rejected could be prized beyond

Life, heaven, by the first fool I threw a fond

Look on, a fatal word to."

"And you still

Love me? Do I conjecture well or ill?"

"Conjecture—well or ill! I had three years

To spend in learning you."

"We both are peers