“I wish such luck may me betide!”

So saying, from the bags he started,

While through his brain vague fancies darted,

And with a brisker air and gait

He left the mill to seek his Kate,

The golden vision to relate.

At eve, before the cottage-door,

They talk’d the wondrous story o’er;

And every time it was repeated,

With warmer hope Whang’s brain was heated.