“Nay, nay,” the suitor said, and thus: “I find,
Dear Hollybrand, none other to my mind;
And should you condescend to give to me
Thy daughter’s hand, thou shalt survey
My flocks and herds, and guide my husbandry.
Rememb’rest thou, good Hollybrand, the day—
At least you must have heard your daughter say—
When I, to bid my uncle to the hall,
Came in all haste—as aunt had had a fall—
Unto thy cot?—’twas then I first espied