For when, assured, the man has nought to keep
His wishes warm and active, then they sleep;
Hopes die with fears; and then a man must lose
All the gay visions, and delicious views,
Once his mind’s wealth! He travels at his ease,
Nor horrors now nor fairy-beauty sees.
When the kind goddess gives the wish’d assent, 60
No mortal business should the deed prevent;
But the blest youth should legal sanction seek
Ere yet the assenting blush has fled the cheek.