Ten Thousand different Thoughts distract my Mind,

My rigid Fate can’t be by words defin’d;

To Death I love, yet cannot wish that you

Should share the Miseries I undergo.

To loath, t’ have all things odious in your sight,

Receive no Ease by Day, no Rest by Night:

Your Soul o’erloaded with continual Cares,

Your Eyes still flowing with a flood of Tears;

Did you but suffer this my grief for you,

’Twou’d quickly finish what my own can’t do.