Included by Thomas Warren in his "Collection of vocal harmony consisting of catches, canons and glees never before published", c.1775.

Lyrics: Matthew Prior

Love, inform thy faithful creature
How to keep his fair one's heart.
Must it be by truth of nature
or by poor dissembling art?

Tell the secret, shew the wonder,
How we both may gain our ends.
I am lost if we're asunder,
Ever tortur'd if we're friends.