And boast my suff’rings, cruel, in her arms;

And when enfeebling transports long controul,

To languid indolence resigns thy soul;

She comes in all her secret arts array’d,

Augments her charms by grief’s deceitful aid;

Affects the tenderness of pensive thought,

A mind with doubt and apprehension fraught;

And with her treach’rous sighs and feign’d distress,

Revives the passion lost in calm success;

’Tis thus, that mingling caprices and tears,