But silly both and savage—O! my heart!

It is too great a trial!—we must part.”— 400

“Oblige the savage by some act!”—“The debt,

You find, the fool will instantly forget;

Oblige the fool with kindness or with praise,

And you the passions of the savage raise.”—

“Time will do much.”—“Can time my name restore?”—

“Have patience, child.”—“I am a child no more,

Nor more dependent; but, at woman’s age,

I feel that wrongs provoke me and enrage.