Part 2 / Act 2 — Chapter xxiv.
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When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy? What art can wash her guilt away? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom, is—to die.
Elegy on Mrs. Mary Blaise.
The king himself has followed her When she has walked before.