When at the venerable pile you stood,

Till the does ventured on our solitude,

We were so still! before the growing day

Call’d us reluctant from our seat away—

Tell me, was all the feeling you express’d

The genuine feeling of my Emma’s breast?

Or was it borrow’d, that her faithful slave 290

The higher notion of her taste might have?

So may I judge, for of that lovely scene

The married Emma has no witness been;