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THE PRINCESS;
Disclaim'd all knowledge of us: last of allMelissa: trust me, Sir, I pitied her.She, question'd if she knew us men, at first Was silent; closer prest, denied it not:And then, demanded if her mother knew,Or Lady Psyche, affirm'd not, or denied:From whence the Royal mind, familiar with her, Easily gather'd either guilt. She sentFor Psyche, but she was not there; she call'd For Psyche's child to cast it from the doors; She sent for Blanche to accuse her face to face; And I slipt out: but whither will you now? And where are Psyche, Cyril? both are fled. What, if together? that were not so well. Would rather we had never come! I dreadHis wildness, and the chances of the dark.'
 And yet,' I said, 'you wrong him more than I That struck him: this is proper to the clown, Tho' smock'd, or furr'd and purpled, still the clown,
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