Got tickets, and the fête attends;

I, robed in white, with fleecy veil,

With orange wreath and courtly trail,

Fancied that, at my levee

They’d all admire and envy me;

But strange to say, I never heard

The very first admiring word!

But then the guests, the gifts, the ring,

And all the joys that weddings bring—

A sweetish scare, I must confess,