And such designing villains thwart,

The underwritten lines exhort.

A Bitch besought one of her kin

For room to put her Puppies in:

She, loth to say her neighbour nay,

Directly lent both hole and hay.

But asking to be repossess’d,

For longer time the former press’d,

Until her Puppies gather’d strength,

Which second lease expired at length;