QUITS!

Indeed, they have not grieved me sore,

Your faithlessness and your deceit;

The truth is, I was troubled more

How I should make a good retreat:

Another way my heart now tends;

We can cry quits, and be good friends.

I found you far more lovable,

Because your fickleness I saw,

For I myself am changeable,

And like, you know, to like doth draw:

Thus neither needs to make amends;

We can cry quits, and be good friends.

While I was monarch of your heart,

My heart from you did never range;

But from my vassal did I part,

When you your lady-love did change:

No penalty the change attends;

We can cry quits, and be good friends.

Farewell! We’ll meet again some day,

And all our fortunes we’ll relate;

Of love let’s have no more to say,

’Tis clear we’re not each other’s fate.

Our game in pleasant fashion ends;

We can cry quits, and be good friends.

Catherine Grant Furley.

Printed and Published by W. & R. Chambers, 47 Paternoster Row, London, and 339 High Street, Edinburgh.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] This indicates that the barony mentioned is in abeyance, a term which will be explained afterwards.

[2] It may interest some readers to be reminded that the widow of this earl, Selina, was the founder of the religious body known as ‘Lady Huntingdon’s Connection.’

[3] It may be instructive to the non-legal reader to be told that the word ‘issue’ in law signifies lineal descendants ad infinitum, and therefore has a more extensive signification than ‘children.’ The two terms are often confounded; but while of course ‘issue’ will include children, it may include more than children.