When such affection with such fate appear'd,

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Want and a father to be shunn'd and fear'd,

Without employment, prospect, cot, or cash,

That I have judged th' heroic souls were rash.

Now shifts the scene—the fair, in tower confined,

In all things suffers but in change of mind;

Now woo'd by greatness to a bed of state,

Now deeply threaten'd with a dungeon's grate;

Till, suffering much and being tried enough,