He heard, he trembled, and in fear resign'd

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His boat; new terror fill'd his restless mind;

Furious he grew, and up the country ran,

And there they seized him—a distemper'd man.—

Him we received; and to a parish-bed,

Follow'd and cursed, the groaning man was led.

Here when they saw him, whom they used to shun,

A lost, lone man, so harass'd and undone,

Our gentle females, ever prompt to feel,