For if my Hopes and Wishes are but vain,

Tell me the Truth——

And end at once my wretched Life and Pain.——

To me her Picture and her Letters send,

They ’ll make me worse, or else my Fate amend;

Such is the State of miserable me,

That any change would advantageous be

Your Brother’s and your Sister’s send me too,

All will be dear to me that ’s so to you.——

Methinks I cou’d submit to wait upon