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28 Now mortgage follows mortgage: Cold delay Still yawns on everie long-depending case. The Knights gay bloome the while slid fast away; Kathrin the while brought bantling imps apace; While everie day renews his vile disgrace, And straitens still the more his galling thrall: See now what scenes his houshold hours debase, And rise successive in his cheerlesse hall. So spake the Seer, and prompt the scene obeyd his call.

See, quoth the Wizard, how with foltering mien, And discomposd yon stranger he receives; Lo, how with sulkie look, and moapt with spleen, His frowning mistresse to his friend behaves; In vain he nods, in vain his hand he waves, Ne will she heed, ne will she sign obay; Nor corner dark his awkward blushes saves, Ne may the hearty laugh, ne features gay: The hearty laugh, perdie, does but his pain betray.