“Can I resist it, if it be of Grace?”

“Dear child in three plain words thy mind express:

Wilt thou have this good youth?” - “Dear Father! yes.”

TALE VII.

THE WIDOW’S TALE.

Ah me! for aught that I could ever read,

Or ever hear by tale or history,

The course of true love never did run smooth:

But either it was different in blood,

Or else misgrafted in respect of years,