Though this sufficiently I have maintained,

The lady inconsolable remained.

HEAV'N guard the FAIR, who meet with ills like these,

And nothing can their wounded minds appease:

I many know howe'er, who would but laugh,

And treat such accidents as light as chaff.

But I have done: no more of that or this;

May ev'ry belle receive her lot of bliss!

THE DRESS-MAKER