Thy dearest child; altho’ she vainly tried
T’escape my observation: and when you * * *”
George Hollybrand look’d up! believ’d it true:
“I do remember well,” he said, “the deed you name
And in thy countenance discern the same.—
The Prews (said George) are now, alas! no more,—
Her[182] haughty spirit’s levell’d with the poor;
But he, the squire, so bountiful and good,
Will ne’er be equall’d in this neighbourhood;
In him a father, I may say, I found: