Nor kept a lively Lass, and curious, blind;

But of the useful and the good supplied

A copious Store, and she was satisfied.

The kind old Student, to oblige the Maid,

The Tricks of Science with its pride display’d:

The Captive Mouse, half-dead for want of Air, 780

Had Freedom granted at the Virgin’s prayer,

Who had no pleasure in th’ exhausted House

To view the panting of the captive Mouse.

[For her] Electric fire illum’d the Gloom,