Responsum dat puellula,—Si flectar ad nubendum

Dic, quæso, quid cibarii habebimus edendum?

Amorem credis ignem in culinâ servaturum,

Aut parvulum Cupidinem jam veru versaturum?


Then the little man replied,

And, they say, a little sighed,

For his little heart was big with sorrow sorrow sorrow,

“My offers are but small,