Yet made the misery of at least two lives.[NF]
XCVI.
I've also seen some female friends[729] ('t is odd,[NG]
But true—as, if expedient, I could prove)
That faithful were through thick and thin, abroad,[NH]
At home, far more than ever yet was Love—
Who did not quit me when Oppression trod
Upon me; whom no scandal could remove;
Who fought, and fight, in absence, too, my battles,
Despite the snake Society's loud rattles.