````Mighty, whether wife or queen;

````Firmer ruler never seen,

```Than 'Rine, 'Rine! La!=

QUECKETT.

[Indignantly.] I will write to my married sisters!

MISS DYOTT.

Do—and I will call upon them! [Singing.] =

````Man's a boasting, fretting fumer,

````Smoking alcohol consumer,

````Quick of temper, ill of humour!=