Who, long inured to oft-recurring grief—

As oft to Heaven consign’d his pray’rful brief—

Now, as his wont, he trusted, found relief.

[183] The doorway.

IV.

Then Jane, obedient to her father’s will,

Brought forth a pitcher of their household ale,

And from the larder at the cottage rear

The frugal remnant of a well-fed steer,—

With which, and some brown-bread, she form’d a feast,