Philip
In the famed town of Cadiz
Lived the fairest of ladies,
Donna Louisa Isabella:
And she had a lover,
Who did his mind discover;
And she thought him a charming fellow.
Now this fairest of ladies
Had a father lived in Cadiz,
And he lock’d her within a high tower:
And her lover coming thither,
He promised to be with her
At a certain appointed hour.
He was there at the time,
And he call’d out in rhyme—
For his heart was consumed to a cinder—
“You have nothing now to fear,
Since your Philip now is here;—
Louisa, pray come to the window!”
The lady appears,
And quiets all his fears;
For his boldness she likes him the better.
“All I want,” says he, “to do,
Is to get convey’d to you—
This very interesting letter!”