As soon as possible from syncope’s fetter1
Her senses had the sense to be recall’d,
“I’m better—that will do—indeed I’m better,”
She cried to each importunate2 besetter;
Meanwhile, escaping from the stir and smother3,
The prudent4 parent seized the lover’s letter,
(Daughters should have no secrets with a Mother)
And read it thro’ from one end to the other.
From first to last she never skipp’d a word—
For young Lorenzo of all youths was one
[Pg 314]
So wise, so good, so moral she averr’d,
So clever, quite above the common run—
She made him sit by her, and call’d him son,
No matrimonial suit, e’en Duke’s or Earl’s,
So flatter’d her maternal5 feelings—none!
For mothers always think young men are pearls
Who come and throw themselves before their girls.

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n./vt.脚镣,束缚 | |
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vt./vi.使窒息;抑制;闷死;n.浓烟;窒息 | |
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adj.谨慎的,有远见的,精打细算的 | |
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adj.母亲的,母亲般的,母系的,母方的 | |
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