O of my father’s house the chiefest care!
Seed of salvation, hope with many, tears
Bewept, with thy strong arm thou shalt restore
Thy father’s house. O my life’s eye, thou dost
Four several functions corporate in one
Discharge for me! My father thou, and thine
The gentler love that should have been my mother’s,
My justly hated mother; and in her place,
Who died by merciless immolation,[f5] thou
Must be my sister, so even as thou art