Then, like a fardel, threw me out;

But her that is content to bilk

Her own dear kids, to give me milk.”

“Yet she that yean’d you sure,” says Tray,

“Should be preferr’d” —“I tell thee nay—

Whence could she know that what she hid

Was black or white?—but grant she did—

I being thus a male begot

’Twas no great favor, since my lot

Was hour by hour, throughout my life,