Child was a word he never more must speak!
How did he know what villains had defiled
His honest bed?—He spurn’d the name of child:
Keep them he must; but he would coarsely hide
Their forms, and nip the growth of woman’s pride;
He would consume their flesh, abridge their food,
And kill the mother-vices in their blood. 650
All this Sir Owen heard, and grieved for all;
He with the husband mourn’d Alicia’s fall;