3820Who (brooking ill his lodging) struck with fear,
Made answer to the matron's question, 'Here'.
So, when her eyes suspicion truth had made,
She asked Conrado how that came to pass,
Quoth he, 'Credulity my fear o'erswayed,
I was deluded with the dukedom lass.
She promised me a dukedom for my pains,
And I, poor I, thought it sufficient gains!'
'Ha!' quoth the matron, 'could thy falsehood serve
Thus to dishonour me, and all my train?