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Will trespass down those cheeks. Companion fair! Wilt be content to dwell with her, to share This sister's love with, me?" Like one resign'd And bent by circumstances, and thereby blind In self-commitment, thus, that meek unknown: "Ay, but a buzzing by my ears has flown, Of jubilee to Dian:—truth I heard! Well then, I see there is no little bird, Tender soever, but is Jove's own care. Long have I sought for rest, and unaware, Behold I find it! so exalted too! So after my own heart! I knew, I knew There was a place untenanted in it; In that same void white Chastity shall sit, And monitor me nightly to lone slumber. With sanest lips I vow me to the number Of Dian's sisterhood; and kind lady, With thy good help, this very night shall see My future days to her fane consecrate."
 * As feels a dreamer what doth most create

His own particular fright, so these three felt: Or like one who, in after ages, knelt To Lucifer or Baal, when he'd pine After a little sleep: or when in mine Far under-ground, a sleeper meets his friends Who know him not. Each diligently bends Towards common thoughts and things for very fear; Striving their ghastly malady to cheer, By thinking it a thing of yes and no, That housewives talk of. But the spirit-blow Was struck, and all were dreamers. At the last