No more behold him - but she would sustain;
Great his offence, and evil was his mind -
But he had suffer’d, and she would be kind:
She spurn’d such baseness, and she found within
A fair acquittal from so foul a sin;
Yet she too err’d, and must of Heaven expect
To be rejected, him should she reject.”
Susan was summon’d - “I’m about to do
A foolish act, in part seduced by you;
Go to the creature - say that I intend,