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
(If ’tis not vain examples to recall)
To draw a high prize: now, howe’er he got her, I
See nought more strange in this than t’ other lottery.