Jane heard a “tap-tap” at the parlour door;
So, suddenly uprising on her feet,
Prepared herself the visitor to meet,—
“The Reverend Alexander Gordon Jay,”[214]
(Most popular grammar-master of the day,—
Within a circle of near thirty miles,—
A man belov’d by most fair juveniles;
Of stature small, but of capacious tact;
And of his person wondrously exact.)—
Who with obeisance and with dexter hand