With him, she thought, her hazard would be less; }
Nay more, she would esteem, she would regard express; }
But, to be brief—if he could wait and see
In a few years what his desires would be.”—
Henry for years read months, then weeks, nor found
The lady thought his judgment was unsound;
“For months read weeks,” she read it to his praise,
And had some thoughts of changing it to days. 90
And here a short excursion let me make,
A lover tried, I think, for lovers’ sake;