While yet Orlando held his pence in hand,

He saw their sister on her duty stand;

Some twelve years old, demure, affected, sly,

Prepared the force of early powers to try;

Sudden a look of languor he descries,

And well-feign’d apprehension in her eyes;

Train’d but yet savage, in her speaking face

He mark’d the features of her vagrant race;

When a light laugh and roguish leer express’d

The vice implanted in her youthful breast: