A SONG

A SONG[Intended to have been sung in the comedy of “She Stoops to Conquer.” Adapted to the Irish air, “The Humours of Ballamaguiry.”]Ah, me! when shall I marry me?Lovers are plenty, but fail to relieve me;He, fond youth, that could carry me,Offers to love, but means to deceive me.But I will rally, and combat the ruiner:Not a look, not a smile, shall my passion discover;She that gives all to the false one pursuing her,Makes but a penitent—loses a lover.

A SONG[Intended to have been sung in the comedy of “She Stoops to Conquer.” Adapted to the Irish air, “The Humours of Ballamaguiry.”]

A SONG

[Intended to have been sung in the comedy of “She Stoops to Conquer.” Adapted to the Irish air, “The Humours of Ballamaguiry.”]

Ah, me! when shall I marry me?Lovers are plenty, but fail to relieve me;He, fond youth, that could carry me,Offers to love, but means to deceive me.But I will rally, and combat the ruiner:Not a look, not a smile, shall my passion discover;She that gives all to the false one pursuing her,Makes but a penitent—loses a lover.

Ah, me! when shall I marry me?Lovers are plenty, but fail to relieve me;He, fond youth, that could carry me,Offers to love, but means to deceive me.But I will rally, and combat the ruiner:Not a look, not a smile, shall my passion discover;She that gives all to the false one pursuing her,Makes but a penitent—loses a lover.

Ah, me! when shall I marry me?Lovers are plenty, but fail to relieve me;He, fond youth, that could carry me,Offers to love, but means to deceive me.

But I will rally, and combat the ruiner:Not a look, not a smile, shall my passion discover;She that gives all to the false one pursuing her,Makes but a penitent—loses a lover.


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