Though plenty replenish’d my board,

I fasted and feasted on love.

My couch but augmented my pain;

No sleep ever closed my eyes;

One glance of my rustic young swain

Was what I more highly did prize.

None ever bemoan’d my sad case;

They laugh’d at the ills I endur’d;

But time did my sorrows efface,

And spite of the imp I was cur’d.