WILLIAM BAILEY.
The letters Richard in a morning read
To quiet and domestic comforts led;
And George, who thought the world could not supply
Comfort so pure, reflected with a sigh;
Then would pursue the subject, half in play,
Half earnest, till the sadness wore away.
They spoke of Passion’s errors, Love’s disease,
His pains, afflictions, wrongs, and jealousies;
Of Herod’s vile commandment—that his wife