XL + 

He was most gay. The happy date + 

In three weeks would arrive for them; + 

The secrets of the marriage state + 

And love’s delicious diadem + 

With rapturous longing he awaits, + 

Nor in his dreams anticipates + 

Hymen’s embarrassments, distress, + 

And freezing fits of weariness. + 

Though we, of Hymen foes, meanwhile, + 

In life domestic see a string + 

Of pictures painful harrowing, + 

A novel in Lafontaine’s style, + 

My wretched Lenski’s fate I mourn, + 

He seemed for matrimony born. + 