XLIX.

First she was silly, and knew not what he meant:

That virtue, by his touches chafed and spent,

Succeeds an itchy warmth, that melts her quite;

She knew not first, nor cares not what he doth;

And willing half and more, more than half wrath,

She neither pulls nor pushes, but outright

Now cries, and now repents; when Thelemite,

Her brother, entered, and a great stone threw

After the ape, who thus prevented flew.

This house, thus battered down, the Soul possessed anew.

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