If to Love she cou'd not incline,

I told her I'd die in an Hour;

To die says she 'tis in thine,

But to Love 'tis not in my Power.

I askt her the Reason why,

She could not of me approve;

She said 'twas a Task too hard,

To give any Reason for Love:

And alass poor Shepherd, &c.

She ask'd me of my Estate,