Unnoticed was suffered the evening to pass.
[p26]
From the banks of the Niger the Blackamoor[69] brought
A fat Moor,[70] who presented a Tyger[71] just caught;
An old Gentlewoman[72] had promised to bring
A musical Miss, who divinely could sing,
But whose fair head, no larger than that of a Dot,[73]
Was filled with the thought of a True Lover’s Knot;[74]
[p27]
So she hem’d and she ha’d, then unblushingly told,
How she caught as she came a most violent cold,
And felt such oppression and pain in her throat,