While she sighs forth "My gentle cavalier!"—

And then they straightway fall to kissing hands,

And antic-gestures—such as lovers use,—

Expressive of their wish quickly to tie

The gordian knot of marriage;—Pretty creatures!—

But why not earlier to have thought of this?—

When he, the innocent youth, was wont to play

At coscogilla; and the prattling girl,

Amid her nursery companions, toiled

In sempstress labours for her wooden dolls.—