The Tales and Novels, v5: The Princess Bethrothed to Garba

Excerpt

          ALACIEL’S story’s of another kind,
          And I’ve a little altered it, you’ll find;
          Faults some may see, and others disbelieve;
          ’Tis all the same:—­’twill never make me grieve;
          Alaciel’s mem’ry, it is very clear,
          Can scarcely by it lose; there’s naught to fear. 
          Two facts important I have kept in view,
          In which the author fully I pursue;
          The one—­no less than eight the belle possessed,
          Before a husband’s sight her eyes had blessed;
          The other is, the prince she was to wed
          Ne’er seemed to heed this trespass on his bed,
          But thought, perhaps, the beauty she had got
          Would prove to any one a happy lot.