Why do I write? Shou’d I your Pity move,

What good wou’d Pity do without your Love?

I scorn it; and my self with equal Scorn

I loath, when I reflect on what I ’ve born:

My Friends I ’ve lost, and Reputation too,

Have ran the hazard of our Laws for you:

But what ’s much worse, now I all this have done,

False as you are, ev’n you ’re ingrateful grown.

Yet, oh! I cannot, cannot yet repent,

But rather am with all my Ills content: