You Fortune's frowns may very well endure.

Mine neighs, at least, but this fair image seems,

Mere pretty fish; I've satisfied my schemes;

What now of precious minutes may remain,

If any one desire my chance to gain,

A bargain he shall have:—most cheap the prize;

The husband laughed till tears bedewed his eyes.

Said he, these youths have always in their head

Some wond'rous fancies; follies round them spread.

Friend, from pursuit you much too soon retire: