I would receive (good Sir) your noble offer,

Heaven can bear witness for me: but alas,

Should I embrace the means to raise my fortunes,

I must destroy the lives of my poor Parents

(To who[m] I ow my being) they in me

Place all their comforts, and (as if I were

The light of their dim eyes) are so indulgent

They cannot brook one short dayes absence from me;

And (what will hardly win belief) though young,

I am their Steward and their Nurse: the bounties