"Why?—Why?—Besides, Fred really was attached;

'T was not her fortune—he has enough without;

The time will come she'll wish that she had snatched

So good an opportunity, no doubt:—

But the old Marchioness some plan had hatched,

As I'll tell Aurea at to-morrow's rout:

And after all poor Frederick may do better—

Pray did you see her answer to his letter?"