Think on our oaths; yes, lady, they are mutual:—

You said you loved; I treasured the confession,

As misers hoard their gold: nay, 'twas my all.—

Think not I chatter in the idle school

Of whining coxcombs, where despair and death

Are words of course; I swell not fancied ills

With windy eloquence: no, trust me, Julia,

I speak in honest, simple suffering:

And disappointment, in my life's best hope,

So feeds upon my life, and wears me inward,