“Mutt’ring his wayward Fancies he wou’d rove;

“Now drooping, woeful-wan, like one forlorn,

“Or craz’d with Care, or cross’d in hopeless Love.

28“One Morn I miss’d him on the custom’d Hill,

“Along the Heath, and near his fav’rite Tree;

“Another came; nor yet beside the Rill,

“Nor up the Lawn, nor at the Wood was he;

29“The next with Dirges due in sad Array

“Slow thro’ the Church-way Path we saw him born.

“Approach and read (for thou can’st read) the Lay,