And let me say, for all your resolution,

That pretty bar-maids have done execution.

Our life is all a play, composed to please:

"We have our exits and our entrances."

The first act shows the simple country maid,

Harmless and young, of everything afraid;

Blushes when hired, and, with unmeaning action,

"I hopes as how to give you satisfaction."

Her second act displays a livelier scene,—

The unblushing bar-maid of a country inn,