Howbeit some notion of his jealous drift

She gather’d from the simple outward fact,

That her own lap contained each slighted gift;

Though quite unconscious of his cause to act

So like Othello, with his face unblack’d;

“Alas!” she sobbed, “your cruel course I see

These faded charms no longer can attract;

Your fancy palls, and you would wander free,

And lay your own apostacy on me!”

I, false!—unjust Lorenzo!—and to you!