Of woman’s wish to triumph and complain,
She had his parents summon’d, and had shown
Their son’s strong wishes, nor conceal’d her own:
“And do you give,” she said, “a parent’s aid }
To make the youth of his strange love afraid; }
And, be it sin or not, be all the shame display’d.” }
The good old pastor wonder’d, seem’d to grieve, 410
And look’d suspicious on this child of Eve.
He judged his boy, though wild, had never dared
To talk of love, had not rebuke been spared;