Cried she.—“What now?” says I.—“Farewell, enjoy

The girl that you’re so taken with!”—I saw

Immediately their cause of jealousy:

Yet I contain’d myself, nor would disclose

My brother’s business to a tattling gossip,

By whom the knowledge on’t might be betray’d.

—But what shall I do now? shall I confess

The girl to be my brother’s; an affair

Which should by no means be reveal’d?—But not

To dwell on that.—Perhaps they’d not disclose it.