To yon small cot a poorly jointured Blue. 150}
TALE XIV.
THE WIFE AND WIDOW.
I.
I leave Sophia; it would please me well,
Before we part, on so much worth to dwell.
’Tis said of one who lived in times of strife,
There was no boyhood in his busy life;
Born to do all that mortal being can,
The thinking child became at once the man;
So this fair girl in early youth was led,