And subsequently scann’d the godly-book;

A sacred feeling fill’d each anxious breast:

Then, for awhile, they parted to get drest.[249]

Punctual, at ten—George Hollybrand came in.

(Methinks how proud Jane’s father must have been

On that bright morning, to behold his own * * *

Oh! think not that many a tear had stol’n

Down o’er his fiftied cheeks, ere he had ta’en

His early meal, a-thinking of dear Jane?)

Toogood, (dear creature, busy as a bee,