Did afterward nor come for them, nor send,

But left them in my keeping for so long,

That now it almost seems to me, a wrong

That he should suddenly arrive to-day,

To take those jewels, which he left, away.

What think you? Shall I freely yield them back,

And with no murmuring?—so henceforth to lack

Those gems myself, which I had learned to see

Almost as mine forever, mine in fee."

"What question can be here? Your own true heart