THE WIDOW’S MITE.
III.
But when he wanted John to ‘list,
In war he saw no fun,
Where what is call’d a raw recruit,
Gets often over-done.
IV.
Let others carry guns, said he,
And go to war’s alarms,
But I have got a shoulder-knot
Impos’d upon my arms.
V.
For John he had a footman’s place
To wait on Lady Wye—
She was a dumpy woman, tho’
Her family was high.