With eyes whose human meaning did not need

The aid of speech; and moan’d, as if at once

To court and chide the long-withheld caress.

A feeling uncommix’d with sense of guilt

Or shame, yet painfulest, thrill’d through the King;

But he to self-controul now long inured,

Represt his rising heart, nor other tears,

Full as his struggling bosom was, let fall

Than seem’d to follow on Florinda’s words.

Looking toward her then, yet so that still