I rode where sat fair Isidore
Inez Mathilde Borghese;
From spur to crest she scann’d me o’er,
Then said “He’s not the cheese!”
O, Mary mother! how burn’d my cheek!
I proudly rode away;
And vow’d “Woe’s his I who dares to break
A lance with me to-day!”
I won the prize! (Revenge is sweet,
I thought me of a ruse;)