Fair Isabella solely got his love,

A beauteous nun, and gentle as a dove,

Till then a novice in the flow'ry chain,

And envied doubly:—for her charms and swain.

Their soft amours were watched with eagle-eye:

No pleasure's free from care you may rely;

In life each comfort coupled is with ill,

And this to alter baffles all our skill.

THE sister nuns so vigilant had been,

One night when darkness overspread the scene;