This is the original source of the song. The melody is by Jean-Paul Égide Martini (1741-1816).
Links:
http://books.google.com/books?id=T7oRAAAAYAAJ
http://lesmontsdureuil.fr/plaisir_d%27amour.php
“The Adventures of Alphonso and Marina” is also available from Project Gutenberg as [e-text 32527].
“Wanderings of the Imagination” (pg. [346], 354, 362, 370, 378, 386, 394, 402, 410).
Source: book publication, 2 vols., 1796.
Author: Elizabeth Gooch (1756-after 1804), born Elizabeth Sarah Villa-Real. Best known for An Appeal to the Public, on the conduct of Mrs. Gooch, the wife of William Gooch, Esq. 1788
Notes: Critical Review, February 1796, referring to a passage from pg. [386]: “One of the licensed abuses which our author animadverts upon—the insolence of servants, to whom it is not immediately convenient for the master or mistress to pay exorbitant wages due to them—might be easily obviated, if those, who call themselves their superiors, would have the discretion to confine their expenses within their incomes. We are aware that this is an unfashionable maxim: but the neglect of it necessarily involves consequences still more serious than those which Mrs. Gooch has stated—the insolence of vulgar tradesmen superadded to that of servants, and ultimate turpitude, disgrace, and ruin.”
“The Farrago” (pg. [348], 356, 364, 372, 380, 388, 396, 404, 412).