“Prove now your love; let these poor infants be
As thine, and find a mother’s love in thee!”—
“And must I woo their father?”—“Nay, indeed; }
He no encouragement but hope will need; }
In hope too let me die, and think my wish decreed!” 60}
The wife expires; the widow’d pair unite;
Their love was sober, and their prospect bright.
She train’d the children with a studious love,
That knew full well t’ encourage and reprove;
Nicely she dealt her praise and her disgrace;