I've that within—for which there are no plasters!

Pray, would you know the reason why I'm crying?

The Comic Muse, long sick, is now a-dying!

And if she goes, my tears will never stop;

for as a play'r, I can't squeeze out one drop:

I am undone, that's all—shall lose my bread—I'd

rather—but that's nothing—lose my head

When the sweet maid is laid upon the bier,

Shuter and I shall be chief mourners here.

To her a mawkish drab of spurious breed,