Some not bad men, have often done the same.

—But after this event, can you pretend

You took the least precaution? or consider’d

What should be done, or how?—If shame forbade

Your telling me yourself, you should have found

Some other means to let me know of it.

Lost in these doubts, ten months have slipp’d away.

You have betray’d, as far as in you lay,

Yourself, the poor young woman, and your child.

What! did you think the Gods would bring about