The Forsaken Wife
Elizabeth Thomas
1675 to 1731
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Methinks, ’tis strange you can’t afford
One pitying look, ______ parting word;
Humanity claims this as due,
But what’s ______ to you?
Cruel man! I am not blind,
Your ______ I find;
Your want of love my ruin shows,
______ broken heart, your broken vows.
Yet maugre all your ______ hate,
I will be true in spite of fate;
______ one preeminence I’ll claim,
To be for ever still ______ same.
Show me a man that dare be true,
______ dares to suffer what I do;
That can for ______ sigh unheard,
And ever love without regard:
I then ______ own your prior claim
To love, to honour, and ______ fame;
But till that time, my dear, adieu,
I ______ superior am to you.