Till Cypria’s self with envy heard

Each partial, each endearing word.

Say, beauteous tyrant! dost delight

To wound this tongue in wanton spite?

Because, alas! too well aware

That every wrong it yet could bear

Ne’er urged it once in angry strain

Of thy unkindness to complain;

But, suffering patient all its harms,

Still would it sing thy matchless charms,