Forgetful of his glory and his name,
Forgetful of his princedom and its cares.
And this forgetfulness was hateful to her. 55
And by and by the people, when they met
In twos and threes, or fuller companies,
Began to scoff and jeer and babble of him
As of a prince whose manhood was all gone,
And molten down in mere uxoriousness. 60
And this she gather’d from the people’s eyes;
This too the women who attired her head,