| With arsenic her I did destroy, How could I be so vicious! But of my young master I was jealous, And so was my old Missus. |
X.
He is led away by bad passions.
| I thought Sarey Leigh warn’t true to me, So all pity then despising, Sure I was tempted by the Devil To give to her some p’ison. |
XI.
His bosom is torn by conflicting resolutions; but he is at last decided.
| Long—long I brooded on the deed, ’Til one morning of a sudden, I did determine for to put It in a beef-steak puddin. |