She brought her spirits to her humble state,
And soothed with idle dreams her frowning fate.
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“Ten summers pass’d?, and how was Clelia then?” -
Alas! she suffer d’ in this trying ten;
The pair had parted: who to him attend,
Must judge the nymph unfaithful to her friend;
But who on her would equal faith bestow,
Would think him rash, - and surely she must know.
Then as a matron Clelia taught a school,