“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
The Marks that Mystics term the Signs of Grace. 150
Then, was it so? Alas! ere yet he fled,