His shallow blood all issue at a wound,

Wash a slave's feet, and smoke upon the ground? 195

But he to you has ever been severe;

Then take your vengeance'-Suffolk now drew near,
Bending beneath the burden of his care,

His robes neglected and his head was bare:
Decrepit Winter, in the yearly ring,

Thus slowly creeps to meet the blooming Spring
Downward he cast a melancholy look,
Thrice turn'd to hide his grief, then faintly spoke
'Now deep in years, and forward in decay,
That axe can only rob me of a day :
For thee, my soul's desire! I can't refrain;
And shall my tears, my last tears, flow in vain ?
When you shall know a mother's tender name,
My heart's distress no longer will you blame.'
At this, afar his bursting groans were heard;
The tears ran trickling down his silver beard:
He snatch'd her hand, which to his lips he press'd,

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And bid her plant a dagger in his breast ;'
Then, sinking, call'd' her piety unjust,'
And soil'd his hoary temples in the dust.

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Hard-hearted men! will you no mercy know?
Has the queen bribed you to distress her foo?
O weak deserters to Misfortune's part,
By false affection thus to pierce her heart!
When she had soar'd, to let your arrows fly,
And fetch her bleeding from the middle sky.
And can her virtue, springing from the ground,
Her flight recover, and disdain the wound,
When cleaving love and human interest bind
The broken force of her aspiring mind?
As round the generous eagle, which in vain
Exerts her strength, the serpent wreaths his train,
Her struggling wings entangles, curling plies
His poisonous tail, and stings her as she flies.

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While yet the blow's first dreadful weight she feels, And with its force her resolution reels,

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Large doors, unfolding with a mournful sound

To view discover, weltering on the ground,

Three headless trunks of those whose arms maintain'd, And in her wars immortal glory gain'd:

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The lifted axe assured her ready doom,
And silent mourners sadden'd all the room
Shall I proceed, or here break off my tale,
Nor truths to stagger human faith reveal?
She met this utmost malice of her fate
With Christian dignity and pious state;
The beating storm's propitious rage she bless'd,
And all the martyr triumph'd in her breast.
Her lord and father, for a moment's spare,
She strictly folded in her soft embrace!

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Then thus she spoke, while angels heard on high,
And sudden gladness smiled along the sky:
'Your over-fondness has not moved my hate;
I am well pleased you make my death so great :
I joy I cannot save you, and have given

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Two lives, much dearer than my own, to Heaven,

If so the queen decrees.*—But I have cause

To hope my blood will satisfy the laws;
If there is mercy still, for you, in store:
With me the bitterness of death is o'er ;
He shot his sting in that farewell embrace,
And all, that is to come, is joy and peace.
Then let mistaken sorrow be suppress'd,
Nor seem to envy my approaching rest.'
Then, turning to the ministers of Fate,
She, smiling, says, 'My victory's complete ;
And tell your queen I thank her for the blow,
And grieve my gratitude I cannot show.
A poor return I leave in England's crown,

For everlasting pleasure and renown :

Her guilt alone allays this happy hour;

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Her guilt, the only vengeance in her power.'

Not Rome, untouch'd with sorrow, heard her fate.

And fierce Maria pitied her too late.

*Here she embraces them

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