Which wise Mamma ordain'd.'
Her elder sister, Jane—the 'blooming Hide, with Eyes so rare,' of whom John Gay had sung in the 'Prologue' to 'The Shepherd's Week'—was already married to the Earl of Essex. Why should not She, too, be a Toast, and 'bring home Hearts by Dozens'?
'Dearest Mamma, for once let me,
Unchain'd, my Fortune try;
I'll have my Earl, as well as She,
Or know the Reason why.'
And so the stanzas, eternally human and therefore eternally modern, dance and sparkle to their natural ending:
'Fondness prevail'd, Mamma gave way;
Kitty, at Heart's Desire,
Obtains the Chariot for a Day,