There were who witness’d that he dropt a tear;
Nay, more, he praised the woman he had lost, 110
And undisputed paid the funeral cost.
The Favourite now, her lord and master freed,
Prepared to wed, and be a wife indeed.
The day, ’twas said, was fix’d, the robes were bought,
A feast was order’d; but a cold was caught,
And pain ensued, with fever—grievous pain,
With the mind’s anguish that disturb’d the brain—
Till nature ceased to struggle, and the mind