To keep and clothe thee in genteel starvation.

VI.

I like thy Waverley—first of thy breeding;

I like its modest "sixty years ago,"

As if it was not meant for ages' reading.

I don't like Ivanhoe,

Tho' Dymoke does—it makes him think of clattering

In iron overalls before the king

Secure from battering, to ladies flattering,

Tuning, his challenge to the gauntlet's ring—