inconstancy in love

  tune—“duncan gray.”

  let not woman e'erplain

  of inconstancy in love;

  let not woman e'erplain

  fickle man is apt to rove:

  look abroad thro' nature's range,

  nature's mighty law is change,

  ladies, would it not seem strange

  man should then a monster prove!

  mark the winds, and mark the skies,

  ocean's ebb, and ocean's flow,

  sun and moon but set to rise,

  round and round the seasons go.

  why then ask of silly man

  to oppose great nature's plan?

  we'll be constant while we can—

  you can be no more, you know.