[179] Et vir abest nobis. This detail in the mouth of Helen is very happily imagined by the poet. She collects all the circumstances that invited her to a compliance, with a minuteness and strength of fancy, that give us plainly to understand her thoughts were often employed this way: and that her only concern was how to bring it about without ruining her reputation with the world, or shocking the delicacy of her lover.
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