She is dead though, and I am undone!

Ye that witness the woes I endure,

Oh let me instruct you to shun

What I cannot instruct you to cure:

Beware how you loiter in vain

Amid nymphs of a higher degree;

It is not for me to explain

How fair and how fickle they be.

Alas! that her lawyers e'er met,

They alone were the cause of my woes;