The truth of what I tell I first avow: }
True will I be in all, and be attentive thou. }
“I was a Ratcliffe, taught and train’d to live
In all the pride that ancestry can give;
My only brother, when our mother died,
Fill’d the dear offices of friend and guide;
My father early taught us all he dared, 460
And for his bolder flights our minds prepared:
He read the works of deists, every book