And rankly thou dost smell! Away, lest thou defilest me!"

Having thus said, she spattered on her bosom twice or thrice;

And, still beholding me from top to toe in scornful wise,

She muttered with her lips; and with her eyes she looked aside,

And of her beauty wondrous coy she was; her mouth she wryed,

And proudly mocked me to my face. My blood boiled in each vein,

And red I wox for grief as doth the rose with dewy rain.

Thus leaving me, away she flang! Since when, it vexeth me

That I should be so scorned of such a filthy drab as She.

"Ye shepherds, tell me true, am not I as fair as any swan?