XCVI.

I've also seen some female _friends_[729] ('t is odd,[ng] But true--as, if expedient, I could prove) That faithful were through thick and thin, abroad,[nh] At home, far more than ever yet was Love-- Who did not quit me when Oppression trod Upon me; whom no scandal could remove; Who fought, and fight, in absence, too, my battles, Despite the snake Society's loud rattles.