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Show ( >9 ) W h o m but in thought to injure is a fin, To punifh which, whole Nations ought to A r m ; For once I faw the wonders of your Vertue, That neither Liberty nor Life cou'd tempt you T o leave the kindeft, and the trueft Husband. Iffa. Whence comes it ? I forget m y Native Pride, T o argue with a wretch below my fcorn ? Whence that m y Ear delights to hear his Voice, And m y heart liftens to him as to one It long has known, and wou'd again converfe with : Thy looks indeed deceiv'd. me, for thy mind Deferv'd a nobler Dwelling ; wert thou then A witnefs of m y fbrrow ? tell me, ftranger, Wert thou then there, and didft thou know that Husband ? Jop. 1 knew, and tho' he was m y Foe ador'd him, W h o that had felt the mighty Pow'r of Love ; And faw his tendernefs, his care of you. W h o cou'd forbear to pity your diftrefs ? I then was happy, I had then a Wife Young ancf to me, at leaft, She feem'd a Beauty, W h o m my Soul lov'd above the hopes of Heav'n, And as I thought, by w h o m I was belov'd On her, when I beheld your Fate, I look'd, I dreaded, that your danger might be Her's, And fear'd if She could Conquer it like you. Juft were m y fears at laft the Danger came. For one I trufted as a Friend, has Rob'd me, Of all which made my Life, and toil a pleafure, Iffa. N o w by m y difmal View of what is pau\ His ftory is as Daggers to m y Heart, Which wounds m e with its likenefs to m y own. Where is this fa He one, this ingrate? Jop. She fled. Far with the Ravifher, and liv'd in plenty ; While I to want and Chains abandon'd, pin'd ! |
