Yet still Rogero gazed like wight distraught, And hurried here and there with fruitless speed:
But when he had recalled the ring to thought, Foiled and astounded, cursed his little heed.
And now the vanished lady, whom he sought, Of that ungrateful and discourteous deed Accusing stood, wherewith she had repaid, (Unfitting recompense) his generous aid.
