Soughtst

Miſerable me! was this, I beſeech thee, that you ſoughtſt after?

Rejoycing, but with aw / In adoration at his feet I fell / Submiſs: he rear’d me, and Whom thou ſoughtſt I am, / Said mildely, Author of all this thou ſeest / Above, or round about thee or beneath.

Hatched from the shell, thou creptst from off the leaf; and in the conduct of unerring instinct soughtst the bottom, saved from a thousand unknown enemies.

Thou well knewst that the work thou wentst about would require the use of all thy powers; it was not thine ease that thou soughtst, but our redemption; […]