Humble, and with high Talents born;

Prepar’d alternate Fates to try;

A Roman holding Death in Scorn;

A Chieftain learning how to die. 20

“Something too much of this!” Yet, then

How shall I thoughts like mine explain?

How inexpert a Maiden’s pen,

Since more than this I write in vain!

“But can the Friend of Denmark’s Prince

Such fond and strange Emotions give;