XIV + 

But let us leave this idle tittle-tattle + 

To waiting-maids, and bed-room coteries, + 

Nor till fit time against her fame wage battle. + 

Poor Elfinan is very ill at ease, + 

Let us resume his subject if you please: + 

For it may comfort and console him much, + 

To rhyme and syllable his miseries; + 

Poor Elfinan! whose cruel fate was such, + 

He sat and cursed a bride he knew he could not touch. + 