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Some ne’er believed one half of what theyheard;

Some look’d perplex’d, and others look’dprofound ;

And several pitied with sincere regretPoor Lord Augustus Fitz-Plantagenet.

XLY.

But what is odd, none ever named the Duke,YVho, one might think, was something inthe affair.

True, he was absent, and ’twas rumour’d,took

But small concern about the when, or where,

Or what his consort did : if he could brookHer gaieties, none had a right to stare:

Theirs was that best of unions, past all doubt,

"Which never meets, and therefore can’t fallout.