“You’ll surely rue the day!”

And credit was to Granny due,

The truth, she, by EXPERIENCE, knew!

Annetta blush’d, and promis’d She

Obedient to her will would be.

But Love, with cunning all his own,

Would never let the Maid alone:

And though she dar’d not see her Lover,

Lest Granny should the deed discover,

She, for a woman’s weapon, still,