She talk’d, and I bless’d her dear tongue;

When she smil’d, ’twas a pleasure too great;

I listen’d and cry’d when she sung,

Was nightingale ever so sweet!

How foolish was I to believe

She could doat on so lowly a clown,

Or that her fond heart would not grieve,

To forsake the fine folk of the town:

To think that a beauty so gay,

So kind and so constant would prove,