Prepared to go, determined though afraid.
“Ungrateful creature!” said the Lady, “this
Could I imagine? - are you frantic, miss?
What! leave your friend, your prospects - is it true?”
This Jesse answer’d by a mild “Adieu?”
The Dame replied “Then houseless may you rove,
The starving victim to a guilty love;
Branded with shame, in sickness doom’d to nurse
An ill-form’d cub, your scandal and your curse;
Spurn’d by its scoundrel father, and ill fed