Nay: all the promises on earth will not
Suffice t’induce him let me leave this cot:”
(Now all the time this conversation pass’d
Persuasive Arnold’s hand in Jane’s was clasp’d;
But she could not, so timid, understand
Wherefore and why he thus desired her hand.)
“And, sir, my mother has been long since dead,
And father, only, earns our daily bread:”
Continued Jane: “but if you’d like to go
To see my father, where you observe the plough,[180]