And I with your lines am quite smit I declare;
So I, at your word, take you, and send you this line,
To say I rejoice to be your Valentine.
FROM A YOUNG MAN NEARLY OUT OF HIS TIME, TO HIS FAVOURITE LADY.
I have only a few months to serve,
When I shall be out of my time;
To keep thee I’ll strain every nerve,
Devoting to thee all my prime.
Then spite of relations and friends,
Consent, my dear girl, to be mine;