A lass replied; “read this, and thou shalt know!”

“What, gone! - ‘Her friend insisted - forced to go:

Is vex’d, was teased, could not refuse her’ - No?

‘But you can follow.’ Yes! ‘The miles are few,

The way is pleasant; will you come? - Adieu!

Thy Laura!’ No! I feel I must resign

The pleasing hope; thou hadst been here, if mine.

A lady was it? - Was no brother there?

But why should I afflict me, if there were?

‘The way is pleasant.’ What to me the way?