And seal’d his lips with her first earnest kiss.

Arnold, in raptures with this stroke of love,

Glimpsed her two joys; and envied not high Jove!

VII.

At eight o’clock, Jane’s father had arrived:

With all his power he zealously contrived,

But fail’d, to be excused from the repast;

And therefore, being prevail’d upon at last,

He dined, for the first time, with his good lord;