Your tears for my absence soon leaving to flow,

Some other will court you, and you will bestow

On a wealthier suitor your hand.”

“Oh! hush these suspicions,” fair Imogine said,

“Offensive to love and to me!

For if ye be living, or if ye be dead,

I swear by the Virgin, that none in your stead

Shall husband of Imogine be.

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