For now no longer could he hide,
What first to hide he strove;
His looks resume their youthful pride,
And flush with honest love.
l. 143. -----
"'Twas so for me, etc." Cf. 'Gentle Herdsman':--
Thus every day I fast and pray,
And ever will doe till I dye;
And gett me to some secret place,
For soe did hee, and soe will I.
l. 145. -----
"Forbid it, Heaven." 'Vicar of Wakefield', first edition,
like the version of 1765, has 'Thou shalt not thus.'
l. 156. -----
"My life." 'Vicar of Wakefield', first edition, has 'O thou.'
l. 157. -----
"No, never from this hour, etc." The first edition reads:--
No, never, from this hour to part,
Our love shall still be new;
And the last sigh that rends thy heart,
Shall break thy Edwin's too.
The poem then concluded thus:--
Here amidst sylvan bowers we'll rove,
From lawn to woodland stray;
Blest as the songsters of the grove,
And innocent as they.
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