Our gentle vicar tried his powers in vain,

She answer'd not, or answer'd with disdain;

Th' approaching fate she heard without a sigh,

And neither cared to live nor fear'd to die.

Not so he felt, who with her was to pay

The forfeit, life—with dread he view'd the day,

And that short space which yet for him remain'd,

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Till with his limbs his faculties were chain'd.

He paced his narrow bounds some ease to find,