From room to room the weary guests went on,

Till every Rayner wish’d the show was done.

Home they return’d; the Father deeply sigh’d }

To find he vainly had for aid applied; }

It hurt him much to ask—and more to be denied. }

The younger Richard, who alone sustain’d

The dying Friendship, true to Love remain’d.

His Phœbe’s smiles, although he did not yet

Fly to behold, he could not long forget;

Nor durst he visit, nor was love so strong, 260