Long, long, he has lied to me, pretending to seek with me for one I had lost, my plighted love.
In secret he robbed me of her.

Heard you not his answer when, to catch the lie on his very lips, I asked what news he could give me of her.

I knew that she was here; his own servant had secretly avowed the truth to me.

And you heard him say that she was gone on far travel.

Therefore it was that he would not harbour me in his house--me, his friend.