Guy Mannering.

3WAVERLEY NOVELS.
13.
Both man and wife did then reply,
6" I fear, my son, that we shall die;
If we should yield to let you go,
Our aged hearts would break with woe."
14.
But he entreated eagerly,
While they were forced to comply,
And give consent to let him go,
But where, alas! they did not know.
15.
In the third part you soon shall find,
That fortune was to him most kind,
And after many dangers past,
sHe came to Durham at the last.
PART III.
1.
He went by chance as I heard say,
To that same house that very day,
In which his Godfather did dwell;
But mind what luck to him befell;2.
This child did crave a service there,
On which came out his Godfather,
And seeing him a pretty youth,
He took him for his page in truth.
3.
Then in this place he pleased so well,
That'bove the rest he bore the bell;
This child so well the Lord did please,
He raised him higher by degrees.
4.
He made him Butler sure indeed,
And then his Steward with all speed,
Which made the other servants spite
And him both day and night.