Obtain’d an hour, made sweet amends for all;

So long they now each other’s thoughts had known,

That nothing seem’d exclusively their own:

But with the common wish, the mutual fear,

They now had travelled to their thirtieth year.

At length a prospect open’d - but alas!

Long time must yet, before the union, pass.

Rupert was call’d, in other clime, t’increase

Another’s wealth, and toil for future peace.

Loth were the lovers; but the aunt declared