Joyn’d with the Coldness of your last Adieu;

Th’ Improbability of your Return,

The many tedious restless Nights I ’ve born,

Your frivolous Excuses to be gone,

Encourag’d my Design and urg’d me on;

Nor did I doubt Success till, ah! too soon,

I found I still must love, still doat and be undone.

Wretch that I am! compel’d alone to bear

The heavy Burthen, which you ought to share.

You ’re the Offender, and I undergo