“To know my present State,

I must a Portion of the past relate.

Remember you, before my Fred’rick’s flight,

How anxious grew that Spirit once so light?

You laught at this—”

“’Tis true; for I supposed

The Man was hypped, and Wine and Mirth proposed;

For I had some Misgiving, and could trace

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Then, was it so? Alas! ere yet he fled,