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And why? because she’s changeable and chaste:

I know no other reason, whatsoe’er

Suspicious people, who find fault in haste,

May choose to tax me with; which is not fair,

Nor flattering to “their temper or their taste,”

As my friend Jeffrey writes with such an air:

However, I forgive him, and I trust

He will forgive himself;⁠—if not, I must.