But, ah! how vain to think his word
Can add a straw to Berry's.'
On the following day, Mary, whom he terms the Latin nymph sent the following lines:—
'Had Rome's famed Horace thus addrest
His Lydia or his Lyce,
He had ne'er so oft complained their breast
To him was cold and icy.
'But had they sought their joy to explain,
Or praise their generous bard,
Perhaps, like me, they had tried in vain,