And she whose beauty caught the tutor's eyes,

A perfect mistress got of heaving sighs.

So oft she practised what the master taught,

Her stomach feeble grew, whate'er was sought;

And strange suspicions of the cause arose,

Which Time at length was driven to disclose.

MOST terribly the father raged and swore;

Our learned master, frightened, left the door,

The lady wished to take the youth for life;

The spark desired to make the girl his wife;