For haply I was by when he began

His stern soliloquy in life dispraise,

And overheard his melancholy plan,

How he had made a vow to end his days,

And therefore follow'd him in all his ways."

LXXVI.

"Through brake and tangled copse, for much he loathed

All populous haunts, and roam'd in forests rude,

To hide himself from man. But I had clothed

My delicate limbs with plumes, and still pursued,