“Shall husband of Imogine be.”
“And if e’er for another my heart should decide,
“Forgetting Alonzo the Brave,
“God grant that, to punish my falsehood and pride,
“Your ghost at the marriage may sit by my side,
“May tax me with perjury, claim me as bride,
“And bear me away to the grave.”
To Palestine hasten’d the hero so bold!
His love she lamented him sore;
But scarce had a twelvemonth elaps’d, when, behold,