These and the tasks successive masters brought -
The French they conn’d, the curious works they wrought;
The hours they made their taper fingers strike
Note after note, all dull to them alike;
Their drawings, dancings on appointed days,
Playing with globes, and getting parts of plays:
The tender friendships made ’twixt heart and heart,
When the dear friends had nothing to impart: -
All! all! are over; - now th’ accomplish’d maid
Longs for the world, of nothing there afraid: