Severely now, Alas! too late,
Life and fortune valu’d not at all,
But his loving wife, now drown’d in gall,
With a babe unborn, of children eight,
All brought to a most mournful plight,
His eldest son with these must drie
The penalties of his miserie,
“Let these Objects of mercy be
“Known to his most gracious Majestie,
“Let innocent children now produce