Pensive, though good, I leave thee, gentle maid,

In thee confiding, of thy peace afraid,

In a strange world to act a trying part,

With a soft temper, and a yielding heart!

II.

P. How fares my gentle Jane, with spirit meek,

Whose fate with some foreboding care I seek:

Her whom I pitied in my pride, while she,

For many a cause more weighty, pitied me;

For she has wonder’d how the idle boy