Urged him to fly from this familiar dame;

He gave one farewell look, and by a coach

Reach’d his own mansion at the night’s approach.

His father met him with an anxious air,

Heard his sad tale, and check’d what seem’d despair:

Hope was in him corrected, but alive;

My lord would something for a friend contrive;

His word was pledged: our hero’s feverish mind

Admitted this, and half his grief resigned:

But, when three months had fled, and every day