Pas. My Flavia say!

What is’t hath ruffled thus thy gentle bosom?

I fear our father hath occasion’d this;

For late, as passing through the hall I saw him,

He paced to and fro in great disorder:

Sometimes, in deep thought lost, he’d stop and pause,

Then o’er his troubled breast crossing his arms,

Would utter words, but in a voice so low,

That they distill’d themselves in gentle air.

Tho’ I did thrice address him, yet he brake