Following this came a lyric, having for its theme the pangs of despised love and the faithlessness of the fair.
"Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer"
W. C. Scully
Yet he was as fickle as he was ardent; success had made him vain and capricious; he had no sentiment to attach him to the victim of his arts; and many a pale cheek and fading eye, languishing amidst the sparkling of jewels, and many a breaking heart, throbbing under the rustic bodice, bore testimony to his triumphs and his faithlessness.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
In Fullalove Alley Mr. Edward Silk, his forebodings fulfilled, received the news of Amelia Kybird's faithlessness in a spirit of' quiet despair, and turned a deaf ear to the voluble sympathy of his neighbours.
"At Sunwich Port, Complete"
W.W. Jacobs