With watching shrunk, with sorrow pale,
Thy lightness and caprice bespeak,
Thy guilt and perfidy bewail.
Those signs of sorrow, on my face,
Are not the obsequies portray'd
Of a lost good, nor yet the trace
Of tribute to thy beauties paid.
They are the evidence alone
There fix'd thy falsehood to proclaim;
Of thy deceits the horror shown,
Of my delirium the shame.
I weep not now thy rigours o'er,
Nor feel regret, that lost to me
Are the returns, which false before
Thou gavest, or favours faithlessly.
I weep o'er my delusions blind;
I mourn the sacrifices made,
And incense to a god unkind
On an unworthy altar laid.
I weep the memory o'er debased
Of my captivity to mourn,
And all the weight and shame disgraced
Of such vile fetters to have borne.