Where they, expectant, ’wait the hour to see

The heroine of the day’s festivity.

[250] Sir Humphrey’s two daughters.

[251] The exterior masonry.

V.

The merry charmers, with their brazen tongues,

Make efforts to chime forth their favourite songs,—

Till the bold ringers are inform’d—that now

They must await until the nuptial vow

Is sanction’d by the law. Now every eye