To act the lover playfully. My cap

Was carelessly thrown back, and on my cheek

I shook some dew for tears, and as she curled

Her lip in mimic scorn, I knelt to her,

And begged for her sweet favor, touchingly.

She answered coldly first, and then relented,

As wiser maids have done; but with a look

Of something so like earnest, that I did

Her hand some violence; and then she blushed

And said I must not tell, but ladies’ lips,