I thought that time would reconcile my fate,

And lift me far above my present state;

Such fatal folly I must still deplore,

No wife am I, but a NEGLECTED WHORE!

Fruition soon my lover’s passion cool’d,

His absence let me know how I was fool’d;

My heaving womb a diff’rent weight confest,

My parents saw it, and were much distrest:

I told the cause;—they turn’d me out of door,

And made we wander forth a wretched WHORE!