And did she think her Jemmy stay’d at school
To study Greek?—What, take him for a fool? 190
Not he, by Jove! for what he had to seek
He would in English ask her, not in Greek;
Will you be mine? are all your scruples gone?
Then let’s be off—I’ve that will take us on.”
’Twas true; the clerk of an attorney there
Had found a Jew—the Jew supplied the heir.
Yet had he fears—“My guardians may condemn
The choice I make—but what is that to them?