He found her coldness would such views defeat;
And thus, by self-reproof and avarice scourged, 440
He wore the galling chains his folly forged.
The wife her pleasures, few and humble, sought,
And with anticipated stipend bought;
Without a home, at fashion’s call she fled
To an hired lodging and a widow’d bed;
Husband and parents banish’d from her mind,
She seeks for pleasures that she cannot find;
And grieves that so much treachery was employ’d