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"You surely know me?—I have often seen |
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"You with the Princess, who such favour show'd, |
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"That I, as her confessor, oft have been |
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"Uneasy at the source from whence it flow'd. |
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"But she's a pious dame, and well bestow'd |
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"Your pains have been to please her: she has found |
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"Means to exchange your present dark abode |
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"For lighter prison far above the ground, |
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"And to delay your death, and get your hands unbound." |