Like a broken-paced cob;

I fear I'm a coward in love, as they say.

She's commencing to laugh;

How the fellows will chaff.

By Jove, I'm not going to ask her to-day.


Ye Retort Exasperating.

"Sweete maide," ye lovesicke youthe remarked,

"Thou'rt fickle as my star!