To find my Labours have no more Success.

Fool as I am! to think to move you more

By Threats than all my Love cou’d do before!

Too well (alas!) I know my Fate to come,

And you ’re too too unjust to make me doubt my Doom.

Since I am not allow’d your Love to share,

All ills in Nature I have cause to fear.

I shou’d be pleas’d did all our Sex admire

Your Charms, if you did not return the Fire;

But there ’s no fear, I by Experience know