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Was not her simple lord at length revenged? And how was that, I pray?

She had a stepson, who from Palestine Return'd, and hearing of his father's wrongs Swore to revenge them.

E'en so; I now remember it distinctly, And the concluding lines sound in my ears.

Ay, many a time I've listened to that ditty: She was a wicked dame of whom it tells. Think'st thou the rhymster knew of such a one? Or be there any such?

I do not know: there may—and there may not.

May, or may not! thou need'st not blush so deeply. What's thy employment here? Some new arrangement. Thy lady's private closet so disturb'd!