And the good vicar found, if George should rise,
It would not be by college exercise.
“At least the time for your degree abide,
And be ordain’d,” the man of peace replied;
“Then you may come and aid me while I keep,
And watch, and shear, the hereditary sheep; 220
Choose then your spouse.”—That heard the youth, and sigh’d,
Nor to aught else attended or replied.
George had of late indulged unusual fears
And dangerous hopes; he wept unconscious tears;—