Managed him warily,—but there 's the wife:
Spare her, because he beats her, as it is,
She 's breaking her heart quite fast enough—jam tu—
So, be you rational and make amends
With little Light-skirts yonder—in secula
Secu-lo-o-o-o-rum. Ah, you rogue! Every one knows
What great dame she makes jealous: one against one,
Play, and win both!"
Sirs, ere the week was out,
I saw and said to myself, "Light-skirts hides teeth