The tidings came, how, and what

Was to be done on the next day,

His lady rose and swoon’d away;

He rose from’s chair, says, You’re distracted,

It is no more than I expected,

Sit down, my lady, and did constrain her,

It shall not make me lose my dinner,

I know we all were born to die,

From death at last, where can we flee?

By his mild words she kept her seat;