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