The Contented Wife, with the Husband's Answer/O Dear! I'm So Pleas'd

by Anonymous

For other versions of this work, see O Dear! I'm So Pleas'd.

Text divider from 'The Contented Wife, with the Husband's Answer', a chapbook printed in Glasgow in 1802

O DEAR! I'M SO PLEAS'D.

When Strephort appears, how my heart pit a pat
shews the tender emotion with which it is seiz'd.
To the shepherd's bewitching gay innocent chat,
I could listen for ever, O dear! I'm so pleas'd.

My grandmother frowns, & protests I'm too young,
with the lesson of Cupid lo soon to be teaz'd,
But so sweet is the honey that falls from his tongue,
I laugh at my grandmam, O dear! I'm so pleas'd.

Should he aak me to wed, as he hinted to-day,
when my hand be so soft & so tenderly squeez'd,
He's so pretty a swain that I can't try him nay,
I'm resolv'd to be marry'd, O dear! I'm so pleas'd.