II.

Sweet kerchief, check'd with heavenly blue,

Which once my love sat knotting in!—

Alas! Matilda then was true!—

At least I thought so at the U—

—niversity of Gottingen—

—niversity of Gottingen.

[At the repetition of this line, Rogero clanks his chains in cadence.

III.

Barbs! barbs! alas! how swift you flew,