Already we have a trio of lovers. We continue:
“But he who reigns in this heart
Fancies another, in his turn.”
Here, then, is an interesting quarternion of people who cannot contrive to come to an understanding with one another; but we are not at the end. Enter another individual—Number 5.
“The fair one, in revenge,
Makes choice of an unknown.”
And now, place for the last lover,
Whose “hand and heart alike
Will be for the first comer.”
A jurisconsult would simply