Year by year I am giving up some of my youth and I am not being consulted about it.' "Said he: 'I would demand justice of the king.

I suppose he thinks that his country can not yet afford a queen, I shall tell him that he is imitating George the Third and that he had better listen to the voice of the people.' "Now, my beloved hero, the English girl who is not married at nineteen is thought to be hopeless.

There are fine lads who have asked my father for the right to court me and still I am waiting for my brave deliverer and he comes not.

I can not forget the thrush's song and the enchanted woods.

They hold me.