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;