and the work begun, how ſoon / Abſolv'd,

[…] the long clean groove of her upper lip was ready to go into motion, as if she were going to break her silence with something momentous and long-matured; explain love to me, perhaps.

Manifestly so; for by what likelihood Had I endured against fourteen knights all armed And purposed, I unpurposed and unarmed, Save innocency stood my friend?

the ancient manner of decumbency