And such a sense might make her long for court
And all its dangerous glories: and I thought,
That could I someway prove such force in her 805
Link’d with such love for me, that at a word
(No reason given her) she could cast aside
A splendour dear to women, new to her,
And therefore dearer; or if not so new,
Yet therefore tenfold dearer by the power 810
Of intermitted custom; then I felt
That I could rest, a rock in ebbs and flows,