Stay, my Charmer, can you leave me

written in 1788

Stay, my Charmer, can you leave me; Cruel, cruel to deceive me! Well you know how much you grieve me: Cruel Charmer, can you go! Cruel Charmer, can you go! By my love so ill requited; By the faith you fondly plighted; By the pangs of lovers slighted; Do not, do not leave me so! Do not, do not leave me so!