And had her notions to the world avow’d;
And, could she find the Merchant weak and frail,
With power to prove it, then she must prevail:
For she aloud would publish his disgrace,
And save his victim from a man so base.
When all inquiries had been duly made,
Came the kind Friend her burthen to unlade: -
“Alas! my dear! not all our care and art
Can thread the maze of man’s deceitful heart;
Look not surprised - nor let resentment swell