No, Thank You John

5You Know I never loved you, John;

6No fault of mine made me your toast:

7Why will you haunt me with a face as wan

8As shows an hour-old ghost?

9I dare say Meg or Moll would take

10Pity upon you, if you'd ask:

11And pray don't remain single for my sake

12Who can't perform the task.

13I have no heart?-Perhaps I have not;

14But then you're mad to take offence

15That don't give you what I have not got:

16Use your common sense.

17Let bygones be bygones:

18Don't call me false, who owed not to be true:

19I'd rather answer "No" to fifty Johns

20Than answer "Yes" to you.

21Let's mar our plesant days no more,

22Song-birds of passage, days of youth:

23Catch at today, forget the days before:

24I'll wink at your untruth.

25Let us strike hands as hearty friends;

26No more, no less; and friendship's good:

27Only don't keep in veiw ulterior ends, And points not understood

28In open treaty. Rise above

29Quibbles and shuffling off and on:

30Here's friendship for you if you like; but love,-

31No, thank you, John.