Warn’d as he was, beyond the present day:
Whate’er his patron might object to this,
The uncle-butler, or the weeping miss—
Let him from this one single day remain,
And then return he would to her in vain! 670
There let him then abide, to earn, or crave
Food undeserved, and be with slaves a slave!”
Had reason guided anger, govern’d zeal,
Or chosen words to make a lover feel,
She might have saved him—anger and abuse