JANE
O brother Robert, say not so;
It is not very long ago,
Ah! brother, you've forgot,
When speaking of a boy you knew,
Remember how you said that you
Envied his happy lot.
ROBERT
Let's see, what were the words I spoke?
Why, may be I was half in joke—
May be I just might say—
Besides that was not half so bad;
For Jane, I only said he had
More time than I to play.
JANE
O may be, may be, very well:
And may be, brother, I don't tell
Tales to mamma like you.
MOTHER
O cease your wrangling, cease, my dears;
You would not wake a mother's fears
Thus, if you better knew.