Annuls the covenant with Orpas pledged,
Nor with solicitations, nor with threats,
Will urge her more, nor from that liberty
Of faith restrain her, which the Prophet’s law,
Liberal as Heaven from whence it came, to all
Indulges. Tell her that her father says
His days are number’d, and beseeches her
By that dear love, which from her infancy
Still he hath borne her, growing as she grew.
Nursed in our weal and strengthen’d in our woe,