"I felt my strength fading away, and I was in a half swoon. How long this horrible thing lasted I know not, but it seemed that a long time must have passed before he took his foul,…

She dandled it, and dancet it up and doune, / Not ceasing till she rais'd it from his swoune.

I dropped the vessel quickly to a lower level. Nor was I a moment too soon. The girl had swooned.

I threw myself down on the island ground, like a dead man, and drowned in desolation swooned away, nor did I return to my senses till next morning, when the sun rose and revived me…