And now, my lord, to tell you all

Relating to me—personal

Like bards of high and low degree:

Of amative propensity;

I married, just at twenty-one,

Since then four years are past and gone,

And every year that passed me o’er

An Irishman came on my floor.

I, with these youths, my time beguile,

Half-idle in my domicile,