While this was a-doing,
Her Maid I was wooing:
She did like her Lady,
But made me a Daddy.
J. W. April 12. 1711.
Hampton-Court, at the Mitre, 1718.
How have I strove to gain the Fair?
And yet how little does she care?
But leaves me starving with Despair.
'Tis now full Eight, I fear her Spouse