No, all this while, ’tis you ’ve deluded been,

And have the greatest Reason to complain.

{How could I see you go, and yet survive,

{ out of Hopes of your Return and Live?

{I ’ve wrong’d you; but I hope you will forgive.

Yet grant it not, treat me severely still,

Tell me, that I ’ve abus’d, and us’d you ill.

Be harder still to please, encrease my Care.

And end my Sufferings with a sure Despair.

A Fate that ’s Tragical would doubtless be