‘Adieu! dear Son! my happiness enfold you,
‘But pray remember all that I have told you:
‘Write to me, John, whenever you are able,
‘Disguise your meaning, wrap it up in Fable.[29]
‘You understand me, John’—then squeez’d his hand;
John in the Boat was quickly row’d from Land—
Soon reach’d the Frigate, which without delay
Her Topsails haul’d, and gently bore away.
And now our Knight with solitary pace
Did to the Fountain Inn his way retrace;