Resolved to fast, and yet compell’d to eat?
Say, did you this, and drink the crystal spring,
And think yourself an abdicated king,
Driv’n from your state by a rebellious race?
And, in your pride contending with disgrace,
Could you your hunger in your anger lose,
And call the ills you bear the ways you choose?
Thus, on myself depending, I began 120
To feel the pride of a neglected man;
Not yet correct, but still I could command