‘A Grocer’s Son, among our City Beaux.
‘I in the Wars who have obtained some credit.’
‘It shall be done, dear John, and I have said it.’
John’s picture he so artfully had drest,
Ambition’s flame now kindled in her breast.
It is an apt old adage, known of course,
‘The Grey Mare often proves the better Horse.’
Her end she gain’d; but how, I’m not to name,
For many thrifty Wives have done the same.
True to her text, the prudent Dame was right,