You shall share both my throne and my heart.
“Then hush all suspicion,” the Cavalier said,
“Believe me, this heart’s all your own;
For whilst I am living, if you be not dead,
I swear by these whiskers, that none in your stead,
Shall sit by my side on the throne.”[92]
But alas! by caprice or intrigue led aside,
His recreant affections soon roam;
He spurn’d the fair damsel who late was his pride,
E’en access to her own belov’d infant deny’d,