Come, my good Harriet, I would gladly seek

Your inmost thought - Why can’t the woman speak?

Have you not all things?” - “Sir, do I complain?” -

“No, that’s my part, which I perform in vain;

I want a simple answer, and direct -

But you evade; yes! ’tis as I suspect.

Come then, my children! Watt! upon your knees

Vow that you love me.” - “Yes, sir, if you please.”

“Again! By Heav’n, it mads me; I require

Love, and they’ll do whatever I desire: