By Guendolen against her faithless lord;[AA]

Till she, in jealous fury unassuaged

Had slain his paramour with ruthless sword:

Then, into Severn hideously defiled,

She flung her[50] blameless child,

Sabrina,—vowing that the stream should bear

That name through every age, her hatred to declare.[AB]

So speaks the Chronicle, and tells of Lear

By his ungrateful daughters turned adrift.

Ye lightnings, hear his voice!—they cannot hear,