Priyanka Verma
Sep 7 2008, Rhapsodysinger

I repeat,
The Count your master’s known munificence
Is ample warrant that no just pretence
Of mine for dowry will be disallowed;
Though his fair daughter’s self, as I avowed
At starting is my object.

My Last Duchess These lines tell us...

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