ing,

Had blundered, tho' I knew it not, six times

beyond redressing,

And surely it was time to stop, tho' still my lot

was lonely:

My house was like a cobbler's shop, full, tho'

with "misfits" only.

And so I should have stopt, I swear, the

wretchedest of creatures,

Rather than put one mark of care on her