And by the kindling passion in my breast,

Which through my riddles you had almost read,

Adjured so strongly, I will tell you all.

In her school years, then bordering on fifteen,

Or haply not much past, she loved a youth—

Selby. My most ingenuous Widow—

Mrs. F. Met him oft

By stealth, where I still of the party was—

Selby. Prime confidant to all the school, I warrant,

And general go-between—