SHE ADDRESSES THE MAID WHEN ALONE
1276. He is overkind and sweet to me: I fear there is something in his heart which he is hardly able to conceal: and it forebodeth to me a second departure.
1277. My bracelet hath read the coolness in the heart of my gracious lord even sooner than my own self.
1278. My beloved parted only yesterday : but it is seven days since my form hath lost its freshness![1]
THE MAID ADDRESSES HIM ALONE
1279. She looked at her bracelet and her tender arm and then she looked at her feet: these are the signs that she made to me.[2]
HE SPEAKS TO THE MAID
1280. She telleth me of the pangs of separation and prayeth for permission to accompany me if I go : how she surpasseth womanhood's self in delicacy to tell this only with her eyes !
