Have many a noble house in ruins laid;
Anna, I trust, although with wrongs beset,
And urged by want, I shall be faithful yet;
But what temptation may from these arrive,
To take a slighted woman by surprise,
Becomes a subject for your serious care -
For who offends, must for offence prepare.”
Perplex’d, dismay’d, the Wife foresaw her doom;
A day deferr’d was yet a day to come;
But still, though painful her suspended state,