And pious pamphlets on the windows laid:

By nature active, and from vice restrain’d,

Increasing trade his bolder views sustain’d;

His friends and teachers, finding so much zeal

In that young convert whom they taught to feel,

His trade encouraged, and were pleased to find

A hand so ready, with such humble mind.

And now, his health restored, his spirits eased,

He wish’d to marry, if the teachers pleased.

They, not unwilling, from the virgin-class