TO A CRUEL CHARMER.

Bare thee some lioness wild in Lybian wold?

Or Scylla barking from low'st inguinal fold?

With so black spirit, of so dure a mould,

E'en voice of suppliant must thou disregard

In latest circumstance ah, heart o'er hard? 5

Did a lioness of the Libyan Hills, or Scylla yelping from her lowmost

groin, thee procreate, with mind so hard and horrid, that thou hast

contempt upon a suppliant's voice in calamity's newest stress? O heart

o'ergreatly cruel.

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