And vow’d—that night he would not go
Unblest, beneath the Mistletoe.
The merry group all recommend
An harmless Kiss, the strife to end:
“Why not?” says Marg’ry, “who would fear,
“A dang’rous moment, once a year?”
Susan observ’d, that “ancient folks
“Were seldom pleas’d with youthful jokes;”
But Kate, who, till that fatal hour,
Had held, o’er Hodge, unrivall’d pow’r,