Yet in such town, where girls and boys must meet,
And every house is known in every street,
Charles had before, nay since his father’s death,
Met, say by chance, the young Elizabeth; 50
Who was both good and graceful, and in truth
Was but too pleasing to th’ observing youth;
And why I know not, but the youth to her
Seem’d just that being that she could prefer.
Both were disposed to think that party-strife
Destroy’d the happiest intercourse of life;