Tell her, and prove her heart toward the Prince.”

So spake the kindly-hearted Earl, and she

With frequent smile and nod departing found, 515

Half-disarray’d as to her rest, the girl;

Whom first she kiss’d on either cheek, and then

On either shining shoulder laid a hand,

And kept her off and gazed upon her face,

And told her all their converse in the hall, 520

Proving her heart: but never light and shade

Coursed one another more on open ground