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II.

The Lady Adeline Amundeville

(’Tis an old Norman name, and to be foundIn pedigrees by those who wander still

Along the last fields of that Gothic ground)VTas high-born, wealthy by her father’s will,And beauteous, even where beauties mostabound,

In Britain — which of course true patriots findThe goodliest soil of Body and of Mind.

III.

I’ll not gainsay them; it is not my cue;

I leave them to their taste, no doubt thebest:

An eye’s an eye , and whether black or blue,Is no great matter, so ’tis in request:

’Tis nonsense to dispute about a hue *—

The kindest may be taken as a test.