Song: Once I Was Unconfin'd and Free

ONCE I was unconfin'd and free.
Would I had been so still !
Enjoying sweetest liberty,
And roving at my will.
But now, not master of my heart,
Cupid does so decide,
That two she-tyrants shall it part.
And so poor me divide.
Victoria's will I must obey.
She acts without controul :

Phillis has such a taking way.
She charms my very soul.
Deceiv'd by Phillis' looks and smiles,
Into her snares I run :
Victoria shews me all her wiles,
Which yet I dare not shun.
From one I fancy every kiss
Has something in 't divine ;

And, awful, taste the balmy bliss,
That joins her lips with mine.

But, when with t'other I embrace,
Though she be not a queen,
Methinks 'tis sweet with such a lass
To tumble on the green.

Thus here you see a shared heart,
But I, mean while, the fool :

Each in it has an equal part.
But neither yet the whole.
Nor will it, if I right forecast,
To either wholly yield :
I find the time approaches fast.
When both must quit the field.