But pray, why in the world did the jade go to do it?”
“’Tis not easy to say; but at first, I suppose,
Just by way of a freak she rode out in man’s clothes.”
“Then her taking the money?” “A mere idiosyncrasy,
As when, some years since, a young gent, being with drink crazy,
Set off straight on end to the British Museum,
And, having arrived there, transgressed all the laws
Of good breeding, by smashing the famed Portland Vase;
Or the shop-lifting ladies, by dozens you see ’em,
For despising the diff’rence ’twixt tuum and meum,