The more they strive my pleasure to restrain,
The less they’ll find they’re likely to obtain; 200
For when they work one to a proper cue,
What they forbid one takes delight to do.”
Clara exulted—now the day would come
Belwood must take her in her carriage home;
“Then I shall hear what Envy will remark,
When I shall sport the ponies in the park;
When my friend Jane will meet me at the ball,
And see me taken out the first of all;