My Love, by chance, her tender finger pricked;

As, in the dark, I strivèd for a kiss:

Whose blood, I seeing, offered to have licked,

But half in anger, she refusèd this.

O that she knew the difference of the smart

'Twixt her pricked finger, and my piercèd heart!

XIX.

Philoparthen. "I pray thee, tell! What makes my heart to tremble,

When, on a sudden, I, Alcilia spy?"