Bring me a gift? or from your flowing wealth

Give solace to my desolate penury?

Or with your pitying influence neutralize

My cup of scorn poured out by abject hands?

That thus ye mock me with contemptuous words

And futile arguments, and dig a pit

In which to whelm the man you call a friend?

Still darkly hinting at some heinous sin

Mysteriously concealed?

Writes conscious guilt