Their charms were his, but, woe to me,

Their constancy was mine.

"For still I tried each fickle art,

Importunate and vain;

And, while his passion touch'd my heart,

I triumphed in his pain:

"Till, quite dejected with my scorn,

He left me to my pride,

And sought a solitude forlorn,

In secret, where he died.