XIII
There he says plainly that she loved a man!
That she around him flutter’d, flirted, toy’d,
Before her marriage with great Elfinan;
That after marriage too, she never joy’d
In husband’s company, but still employ’d
Her wits to ’scape away to Angle-land;
Where lived the youth, who worried and annoy’d
Her tender heart, and its warm ardours fann’d
To such a dreadful blaze, her side would scorch her hand.