Deprives them of their outward liberty,

Their inward lost.

Milton.

Life swarms with ills; the boldest are afraid;

Where, then, is safety for a tender maid?

Unfit for conflict, round beset with woes,

And man, whom least she fears, her worst of foes;

When kind, most cruel; when oblig’d the most,

The least obliging; and by favours lost.