Broad Grins / Comprising, With New Additional Tales in Verse, Those / Formerly Publish'd Under the Title "My Night-Gown and / Slippers."

by George Colman

A sheet of water thou shalt have;

Such sheets there are in Holland Dykes.”

The Fiends approach; the Maid did shrink;

Swift thro’ the night’s foul air they spin;

They took her to the green well’s brink,

And, with a souse, they plump’d her in.

So true the fair, so true the youth,

Maids, to this day, their story tell:

And hence the proverb rose, that Truth

Lies in the bottom of a well.