He roll'd his eye with stern regard

Upon the gentle minstrel bard,

And said in tones abrupt, austere—

"Why, Bracy! dost thou loiter here?

I bade thee hence!" The bard obey'd;

And turning from his own sweet maid,

The aged knight, Sir Leoline,

Led forth the Lady Geraldine!

THE CONCLUSION TO II.

A little child, a limber elf,