[p17]
Together you had best advise,
And as you are humane, be wise!
For should you foolishly decide,
By your own choice you must abide;
Nor further does my power extend,
Howe’er dispos’d to be your friend.
So saying, the benignant fay
Quick thro’ the key-hole whisk’d away.
Our cottagers from fear relieved,
Scarcely their eyes and ears believ’d: