Lord Guilford Dudley waits below,
Lady, close the book and go!
What! bending still above the page?
Doth it thy woman-thoughts engage?
Is it ancient Plato’s classic lore
Thine eager eye is poring o’er?
Well may old Roger Ascham smile
To see thee sit amid that pile
Of musty tomes, and gravely ask
Which study next must be thy task.