As one whom taste and wealth had jointly bless’d;
He gazed, but soon a footman at the door
Thundering, alarm’d her, who was seen no more.
“This was the lady whom her lover bound
In solemn contract, and then proved unsound:
Of this affair I have a clouded view,
And should be glad to have it clear’d by you.” 30
So Richard spake, and instant George replied,
I had the story from the injured side,
But when resentment and regret were gone,