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CLARIN. Stop: Renuncio / Bride like this who smells of smoke / Stronger than a blacksmith's furnace. / But perhaps the incantation, / Being so extremely sudden, / Caught her leaning o'er the lye-tub, / If not cooking tripe for supper. / No. Thus cloaked and in a kitchen! / That excuse won't do: another / Let me try. (I have it now, / For an honourable woman / Never smells then any sweeter,) / She with fright must have been flustered. -- / He has overtaken her now, / And from that rude vale uncultured, / Struggling in closed clasping arms, / (For I think when lovers struggle, / Open arms are not the weapon / Even for the lustiest lover,) / To this very spot they come: / I will watch them under cover, / For I wish for once to witness / How young women are abducted. / [Conceals himself.