And I noticed the paint on the top of his head
Was getting remarkably thin.
And I asked him why, at that hour of the night,
He was making that horrible noise;
And I told him to stop and behave like a man,
Or like other respectable toys.
“Oh! how would you like it yourself,” quoth he,
“To be married to such a wife;
To be treated as no loving husband should be,
And be plagued almost out of your life?