My husband at my feet had fallen; my babe, ...

Spare me that thought, O God!... and then ... even then

Amid the maddening throes of agony

Which rent my soul, ... when if this solid Earth

Had open’d and let out the central fire

Before whose all-involving flames wide Heaven

Shall shrivel like a scroll and be consumed,

The universal wreck had been to me

Relief and comfort; ... even then this Moor

Turn’d on me his libidinous eyes, and bade