Reuben this time was absent, and not told
That Joseph was took out of the pit and sold,
He therefore to the pit return'd, that he
Might sit his father's Joy at liberty.
}But when, alas! he found he was not there,
He was so overcome with black despair,
To rend his garments he could not forbear;
Then going to his bretheren thus said he,
Poor Joseph's out, and whither shall I flee?