But I think I gave you as good!

"That foreign fellow,—who can know

How she pays, in a playful mood,

For his tuning her that piano?"

Could you say so, and never say,

"Suppose we join hands and fortunes,

And I fetch her from over the way,

Her, piano, and long tunes and short tunes"?

No, no: you would not be rash,

Nor I rasher and something over: