Does anyone know the song, "Black Dog and Sheepcrook"?
In the song a shepherd has a sweetheart who decides to "go into service if the day ain't too late" and "when into service a year or too bound, then we'll get married, love, and both settle down". But, "a little while after a letter was wrote, to see if my dear Dinah had changed her mind" and "she wrote that she lived such a contrary life, she'd never be a poor shepherd's wife".
I suppose some things never change. Some people will remain happy with what they've got, whereas others will have aspirations for something different.