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"I AM here to time, you see; / The glade is well-screened-eh? -against alarm; / Fit place to vindicate by my arm / The honour of my spotless wife, / Who scorns your libel upon her life / In boasting intimacy!
"‘All hush-offerings you'll spurn, / My husband. Two must come; one only go,' / She said. ‘That he'll be you I know; / To faith like ours Heaven will be just, / And I shall abide in fullest trust / Your speedy glad return."