This was the first and only interview;
Nay, had that lovely arm by him been seized,
The lovely owner had been highly pleased.
“Alas!” he sigh’d, “I never can contrive
At such bold, blessed freedoms to arrive;
Never shall I such happy courage boast,
I dare as soon encounter with a ghost.”
Now to a play the friendly couple went,
But the Boy murmurd at the money spent;
“He lov’d,” he said, “to buy, but not to spend -