PEER
Coquette!
What, home! To father-in-law! That would be fine!
We madcap birds that have flown from the cage
must never come into his sight again.
Besides, my child, in the self-same place
it’s wisest never to stay too long;
for familiarity lessens respect;—
most of all when one comes as a prophet or such.
One should show oneself glimpse-wise, and pass like a dream.
Faith, ’twas time that the visit should come to an end.
They’re unstable of soul, are these sons of the desert;—
both incense and prayers dwindled off towards the end.