But is your Friend then more concern’d to know
Than I, the Perils that you undergo?
If not, how comes it that you cou’d afford
To write to him, whilst I have not a Word?——
Why do I talk? what cou’d I else expect?
But base Ingratitude, and cold Neglect?
From one who slighting all which once he swore
Now seeks new Beauties on a Foreign Shore.——
Yet Heav’n avert its Wrath, nor may’st thou be
E’er punished for thy Treachery to me,