XLIX.

First she was silly and knew not what he ment.

That vertue, by his touches, chaft and spent,

Succeeds an itchie warmth, that melts her quite;

She knew not first, nowe cares not what he doth,

And willing halfe and more, more then halfe <loth>, 485

She neither puls nor pushes, but outright

Now cries, and now repents; when _Tethlemite_

Her brother, entred, and a great stone threw

After the Ape, who, thus prevented, flew.

This house thus batter'd downe, the Soule possest a new. 490

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