Or this same slipper mock’d my sleep.’

‘The slipper which I have before me,

The slipper it bespeaks no good:

Who could think that she could slumber

In so pure and gentle mood.’

Wild the doubts that rise within him:

—‘Help me Heaven! with guiding light,

Baffling madness louring round

Forbids me see my path aright.

Oh! my vineyard so well guarded!