Is that portentous phrase, "I told you so,"
Uttered by friends, those prophets of the past,
Who, 'stead of saying what you now should do,
Own they foresaw that you would fall at last,[MY]
And solace your slight lapse 'gainst bonos mores,
With a long memorandum of old stories.
LI.
The Lady Adeline's serene severity
Was not confined to feeling for her friend,
Whose fame she rather doubted with posterity,