For her consent, she groan’d, and cough’d, and cried,

Talk’d of departing, and again her breath

Drew hard, and cough’d, and talk’d again of death:

“Here may you live, my Dinah! here the boy

And you together my estate enjoy:”

Thus to the lovers was her mind expressed,

Till they forbore to urge the fond request.

Servant, and nurse, and comforter, and friend,

Dinah had still some duty to attend;

But yet their walk, when Rupert’s evening call