Spoke of the favourites, whom so good and kind 140
It was peculiar happiness to find;
Then for the sisters in their griefs they felt,
And, sad themselves, on saddening subjects dwelt.
But George was willing all this woe to spare,
And let to-morrow be to-morrow’s care.
He of his purchase talk’d—a thing of course,
As men will boldly praise a new-bought horse.
Richard was not to all its beauty blind,
And promised still to seek, with hope to find: