Some are soon bagged, and some reject three dozen:

'T is fine to see them scattering refusals

And wild dismay o'er every angry cousin

(Friends of the party), who begin accusals,

Such as—"Unless Miss Blank meant to have chosen

Poor Frederick, why did she accord perusals

To his billets? Why waltz with him? Why, I pray,

Look 'Yes' last night, and yet say 'No' to-day?