William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910.
Song: ‘Pious Selinda goes to prayers’William Congreve (1670–1729)
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If I but ask the favour;
And yet the tender fool’s in tears
When she believes I’ll leave her.
Or else had hopes to win her;
Would she could make of me a saint,
Or I of her a sinner!