Or cheated by Love in a Cottage,

Or Shepherds enchantingly crook'd.

Too well, dear, we know modern men's tone,

Of "briar" the pipes which they blow.

Say, have you gone soft à la Shenstone?

My own Angelina, say "No!"

Remember the cynic romances

We read in that Devonshire glen!

We are not the slaves of girl-fancies,

We've learned far too much about Men!