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18 Her end accomplishd, and her hopes at stay, What need her now, she recks, one smyle bestow; Each care to please were trouble thrown away, And thriftlesse waste, with many maxims moe, As, What were she the better did she so? She conns, and freely sues her native bent: Yet still can she to guard his thralldom know, Though grimd with snuff in tawdrie gown she went, Though peevish were her spleen and rude her jolliment.

As when the linnett hails the balmie morne, And roving through the trees his mattin sings, Lively with joy, till on a lucklesse thorne He lights, where to his feet the birdlime clings; Then all in vain he flapps his gaudie wings; The more he flutters still the more foredone; So fares it with the Knight: each morning brings His deeper thrall; ne can he brawling shun, For Kathrin was his thorne and birdlime both in one.