LX.

Perhaps you'll have a letter from the mother,

To say her daughter's feelings are trepanned;

Perhaps you'll have a visit from the brother,

All strut, and stays, and whiskers, to demand

What "your intentions are?"—One way or other

It seems the virgin's heart expects your hand:

And between pity for her case and yours,

You'll add to Matrimony's list of cures.

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