His head or hands would usefully employ— 40
At least for thee his grateful spirit pray’d,
And now to ask thy fortune is afraid.—
——How fares ‘the gentle Jane?—
F. Know first, she fares
As one who bade adieu to earthly cares;
As one by virtue guided, and who, tried
By man’s deceit, has never lost her guide.
Her age I knew not, but it seem’d the age
When Love is wont a serious war to wage