Yet Tom has been the first to fall himself.
I've missed the sweets of married life,
The bills, the coos, and all the rest of it!
I cannot boast, like Tom, a wife,
I wonder, tho', who's got the best of it?
Fair Maude, I willingly allow
I thought my heart for ever riven.
It wasn't so at all, and now
Your Ladyship is quite forgiven.