A Confidant too, you must introduce,
Her name must be sprightly, her character spruce;
And if you should want for to lengthen the action,
Let the maid court with John, for your own satisfaction;
Let the reader be drown’d in a reverie deep,
But I hope o’er your book he won’t quite fall asleep:
Then rouse him at once with soniferous thunder,
But when on the high horse, have a care, don’t fall under.
Let a messenger enter as pale as a ghost!
With a letter of woe, that would soften a post—