Let friendship bind us, I will quickly show
Some favourites near us you’ll be bless’d to know;
My aunt forbids it - but, can she expect,
To soothe her spleen, we shall ourselves neglect?
Jane and the Widow were to watch and stay
My free-born feet; I watch’d as well as they:
Lo! what is this? - this simple key explores
The dark recess that holds the Spinster’s stores:
And, led by her ill star, I chanced to see
Where Issop keeps her stock of ratafie;