Presumptuous! I have scorn’d my fate,

And wrought this mischief: all too late

The error of my life I see,

And misery my portion be.

Time, that no more I may recal,

By wise men priz’d, and dear to all,

How have I squander’d! how abus’d!

My friends, my neighbours, basely us’d!

How shall I bear, acquaintance meeting,

Scorn to behold where once was greeting?