Ne’er cou’d I think, that when you had enjoy’d

My Favours, with them you ’d so soon be cloy’d:

{Or that the Dangers of the Sea you ’d run,

{Scorn Rocks and Pirates too, that you might shun

{A Maid that lov’d like me, and is by you undone.

{Reflect, thou faithless Man! and call to mind

{What I ’ve endur’d for you, yet not repin’d,

{And tell me, can this Treatment then be kind?

The Officer now presses me to ’ve done

My Letter, or (he says) he must be gone;