All I sat down to eat and drink.

FROM A PERSON OF ANY RANK TO HIS FAVOURITE LADY.

As you’re the fair whom I approve,

Oh, let us visit Hymen’s shrine,

There make our vows of mutual love,

And be each other’s Valentine!

ANSWER OF COMPLIANCE.

You have astonish’d me indeed,

And my consent I hereby sign;

I’ll follow—if the way you’ll lead—