And be received, and nursed, forsooth,

As arrows of unblemished truth:

Maligning spotless innocence,

With grave impeachments of offence.

Their crime, of heinous crimes the worst,

With multiplied damnation cursed,

Who, lost to every sense of shame,

Assassinate a woman's name.

For such, with trumped-up calumnies,

Would drag an angel from the skies,