And pleased he led the knight to the superior room; }
Where she was wont in happier days to sit,
Who paid with smiles his condescending wit.
There the sad husband, who had seldom been
Where prints acquired in happier days were seen,
Now struck by these, and carried to the past,
A painful look on every object cast.
Sir Owen saw his tenant’s troubled state, 680
But still he wish’d to know the offenders’ fate.
“Know you they suffer, Ellis?”—Ellis knew;