In quest of succour howsoe'er he went:

To kill him surely William never meant,

But only take an ear, or what the Turks,

Those savage beasts, cut off from Nature's works;

Which doubtless must be infinitely worse

Infernal practice and continual curse.

'Twas this he whispered should be Andrew's doom,

When with his easy wife he left the room;

She nothing durst reply: the door he shut,

And our gallant 'gan presently to strut,