Chapter 40 THE CHILD'S PURCHASE.

A PROLOGUE.

As a young Child, whose Mother, for a jest,

To his own use a golden coin flings down,

Devises blythe how he may spend it best,

Or on a horse, a bride-cake, or a crown,

Till, wearied with his quest,

Nor liking altogether that nor this,

He gives it back for nothing but a kiss,

Endow'd so I

With golden speech, my