With keener appetite (if that might be)

And closer industry. Of what ensued

Within the heart[525] no outward sign appeared

Till a betraying sickliness was seen

To tinge his cheek; and through his frame it crept

With slow mutation unconcealable;

Such universal change as autumn makes

In the fair body of a leafy grove

Discoloured, then divested.

"'Tis affirmed