These two with patience jogg’d behind.

To Trueman, so ’twas doom’d by fate,

Maiden was yok’d as trav’lling mate:

In these an early fondness grew,

If he did this, she’d do so too;

From Maiden Trueman scarce would stray,

But spent with her the livelong day;

For her the half-pick’d bone he’d spare,

And guard her with a lover’s care.

If he in playful frolic run,