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"BUT hear. If you stay, and the child be born, / It will pass as your husband's with the rest, / While, if we fly, the teeth of scorn / Will be gleaming at us from east to west; / And the child will come as a life despised; / I feel an elopement is ill-advised!"
"O you realize not what it is, my dear, / To a woman! Daily and hourly alarms / Lest the truth should out. How can I stay here, / And nightly take him into my arms! / Come to the child no name or fame, / Let us go, and face it, and bear the shame. "