Some offer you eggs laid by plovers,

Some offer the luck of the pot;

A great many offer you nothing,

They sit, like automata, dumb,

The silly ones give you a loathing,

But Fanny gives merely her thumb.

Some bore you with six-year-old gabies,

In the shape of a master or miss;

Others hold up their slobbering babies,

Which you must be a brute not to kiss: