Note 42 — THE TALE OF ZAYN AL-ASNAM. (ARABIC.)
Richard Francis Burton translation
The idea is Lady M. W. Montague’s (“The Lady’s Resolve.”)
In part she is to blame that has been tried:
He comes too near that comes to be denied.
As an unknown correspondent warns me the sentiment was probably suggested by Sir Thomas Overbury (“A Wife.” St. xxxvi):—
—In part to blame is she
Which hath without consent bin only tride:
He comes too near that comes to be denide.