XXXVII.

For sometimes they accept some long pursuer,

Worn out with importunity; or fall

(But here perhaps the instances are fewer)

To the lot of him who scarce pursued at all.

A hazy widower turned of forty 's sure[LL] [629](If 't is not vain examples to recall)[LM]To draw a high prize: now, howe'er he got her, I

See nought more strange in this than t' other lottery.

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