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