His love and kindness both were absolute.
She needed not her wishes to express 460
To one who urged her on to happiness;
For this he took her to the lakes and seas, }
To mines and mountains, nor allow’d her ease; }
She must be pleased, he said, and he must live to please. }
He hurried north and south, and east and west,
When age required they would have time to rest;
He in the richest dress her form array’d,
And cared not what he promised, what he paid;