So confident of her charm!

I have not a doubt she was thinking then

Of her former lord, good soul that he was,

Who died the richest and roundest of men,

The Marquis of Carabas.

I hope that, to get to the kingdom of heaven,

Through a needle's eye he had not to pass;

I wish him well for the jointure given

To my lady of Carabas.

Meanwhile I was thinking of my first love