In the ear of the eager Lisette,

“I’ll paint you as well as I can,

That wonderful thing, a Coquette.

“She wears a most beautiful face”

(“Of course,” said the pretty Lisette),

“And isn’t deficient in grace,

Or else she were not a Coquette.

“And then she is daintily made”

(A smile from the dainty Lisette)

“By people expert in the trade