Much have I fear’d, but am no more afraid,

When some chaste beauty, by some wretch betray’d,

Is drawn away with such distracted speed,

That she anticipates a dreadful deed:

Not so do I - Let solid walls impound

The captive fair, and dig a moat around;

Let there be brazen locks and bars of steel,

And keepers cruel, such as never feel;

With not a single note the purse supply,

And when she begs, let men and maids deny;