“Had I,” he thinks, “been wealthier of the two, } Would she have found me so unkind, untrue? } Or knows not man, when poor, what man when rich will do? } Yes, yes! I feel that I had faithful proved, And should have soothed and raised her, bless’d and loved.” But Dinah moves--she had observed before The pensive Rupert at an humble door. Some thoughts of pity raised by his distress, Some feeling touch of ancient tenderness; Religion, duty, urged the maid to speak 340 In terms of kindness to a man so weak; But pride forbad, and to return would prove She felt the shame of his neglected love; Nor wrapp’d in silence could she pass, afraid Each eye should see her, and each heart upbraid. One way remain’d--the way the Levite took, Who without mercy could on misery look, (A way perceived by craft, approved by pride): She cross’d, and pass’d him on the other side. [3] Allusion is here made, not to the well-known species of _sumach,_ called the poison-oak, or _toxicodendron_, but to the _upas_, or poison-tree of Java; whether it be real or imaginary, this is no proper place for inquiry. TALE V. _THE PATRON._ It were all one, That I should love a bright [particular] star, And think to wed it; [he] is so much above me: In [his] bright radiance and collateral heat Must I be comforted, not in [his] sphere. _All’s Well that Ends Well_, Act I. Scene 1. Poor wretches, that depend On greatness’ favours, dream as I have done,-- Wake, and find nothing. _Cymbeline_, Act V. Scene 4. And since . . . Th’ affliction of my mind amends, with which I fear a madness held me. _[The] Tempest_, Act V. TALE V. _THE PATRON._