Nor was he cold; but, when she might expect, 370
A letter came, and one to this effect:
“That, if his eyes had not his love convey’d,
They had their master shamefully betray’d;
But she must know the flame, that he was sure,
Nor she could doubt, would long as life endure.
Both were in widow’d state, and both possess’d
Of ample means to make their union bless’d;
That she had been confined he knew for truth,
And begg’d her to have pity on her youth;