V.

Up on a hill, about three furlongs off,

The stable-boy (not far from being a dwarf)

Was sent by Jane, and caution’d how to raise

And wave on high a strip of scarlet baize,

So soon as he beheld his master’s chaise.

(A beacon-signal to the anxious Jane,

Whilst she sat peeping through the window pane;

For on this hill a distant view arose

Of the high-road, ’long which the traveller goes