IX + 

So she was silenced, and fair Bellanaine, + 

Writhing her little body with ennui, + 

Continued to lament and to complain, + 

That Fate, cross-purposing, should let her be + 

Ravish’d away, far from her dear countree; + 

That all her feelings should be set at nought, + 

In trumping up this match so hastily, + 

With lowland blood; and lowland blood she thought + 

Poison, as every stanch true-born Imaian ought. + 