XV + 

Soon as (according to his promises) + 

The bridal embassy had taken wing, + 

And vanish’d, bird-like, o’er the suburb trees, + 

The emperor, empierced with the sharp sting + 

Of love, retired, vex’d and murmuring + 

Like any drone shut from the fair bee-queen, + 

Into his cabinet, and there did fling + 

His limbs upon the sofa, full of spleen, + 

And damn’d his House of Commons, in complete chagrin. + 