To fetch her book, to place her stool,
Or bear the laden ridicule:
To chat, to laugh, to sing, to read,
As whims or wishes might succeed:
And I am proud to make it known
Her ev'ry pleasure was my own;
And all to please her I could do,
Was joy, as it was duty too.
"Here now my better story ends—
So far, I trust, Sir, we are friends: