Retribution + 

How I did hold in deep contempt + 

The slaves and queens of love! + 

How I disguised my feelings when + 

I met a deer or a dove! + 

How I did smile and sniff and rail + 

At lovers young and old; + 

How I denied, in days gone by, + 

O love, thy charms untold! + 

But now, alas! I find myself + 

In chains at Beauty’s shrine: + 

The chains whose power I have denied + 

Are sapping, sapping mine. + 