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: