But being so beholden to the Prince,

It were but little grace in any of us,

Bent as he seem’d on going this third day, 625

To seek a second favour at his hands.

Yet if he could but tarry a day or two,

Myself would work eye dim, and finger lame,

Far liefer than so much discredit him.”

And Enid fell in longing for a dress 630

All branch’d and flower’d with gold, a costly gift

Of her good mother, given her on the night