The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott, with memoir of the author.

110 ROKEBY. [CANTO II.
Go to her now —be bold of cheer,
While her soul floats'twixt hope and fear;
It is the very change of tide,
When best the female heart is triedPride, prejudice, and modesty,
Are in the current swept to sea;1
And the bold swain, who plies his oar,
May lightly row his bark to shore."
among the triumphant party. The whole of Sir Robert Howard's excellent comedy of The Committee turns upon the plot
of Mr. and Mrs. Day to enrich their family, by compelling
Arabella, whose estate was under sequestration, to marry
their son Abel, as the price by which she was to compound
with Parliament for delinquency; that is, for attachment to
the royal cause.
1 [MS.-" In the warm ebb are swept to sea."]