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 -