And one too much was not secure,
Herself, her servant, and Betty Burke,
Who was going to her mother’s work.
The boat’s prepar’d, away they set;
But lady Clan-Ronald was in a strait:
For soon as she had reached home,
Was strict examin’d by Ferguson——
Pray where now, Madam, have you been,
Seeing a sick child, a dying frien’;
My servants might have told the matter;