If whilst my hard Fate I sustain,

In her Breast any Pity is found;

Let her come with the Nymphs of the Plain,

And see me laid low in the Ground;

The last humble Boon that I crave,

Is to shade me with Cypress and Yew;

And when she looks down on my Grave,

Let her own that her Shepherd was true.

Then to her new Love let her go,

And deck her in Golden Array;