What became of the dear little girl? Bloudie Jacke! What became of the young Mary-Anne? Why, I'm sadly afraid That she died an Old Maid, For she fancied that every Young Man Had a plan To trepan her like "poor Sister Fan!"
So they say she is now leading apes, Bloudie Jacke! And mends Bachelors' small-clothes below; The story is old, And has often been told, But I cannot believe it is so— No! No! Depend on't the tale is "No Go!"
Moral.
And now for the moral I'd fain, Bloudie Jacke! That young Ladies should draw from my pen,— It's—"Don't take these flights Upon moon-shiny nights, With gay, harum-scarum young men, Down a glen!— You really can't trust one in ten!" Let them think of your terrible Tower, Bloudie Jacke; And don't let them liberties take, Whether Maidens or Spouses, In Bachelors' houses; Or, some time or another, they'll make A Mistake! And lose—more than a Shrewsberrie Cake!!
FOOTNOTES:
[41] "The Pope is said—this fact is hardly credible—to have sold the Laocoon and the Apollo Belvidere to the Emperor of Russia for nine million of francs."—Globe and Traveller.
[42] Oh, Pailin! Prince of cake-compounders! the mouth liquefies at thy very name—but there!
[43] Jehan de Ketche acted as Provost Marshal to the army of William the Conqueror, and received from that monarch a grant of the dignity of Hereditary Grand Functionary of England, together with a croft or "parcel of land," known by the name of the Old Bailie, co. Middx., to be held by him, and the heirs general of his body, in Grand Serjeantry, by the yearly presentation of "ane hempen cravatte." After remaining for several generations in the same name, the office passed, by marriage of the heiress, into the ancient family of the Kirbys, and thence again to that of Callcraft (1st Eliz. 1558).—Abhorson Callcraft, Esq. of Saffron Hill, co. Middx., the present representative of the Ketches, exercised his "function" on a very recent occasion, and claimed and was allowed the fee of 13-1/2d. under the ancient grant as Hangman's Wages.
Arms.—1st and 4th, Quarterly, Argent and Sable; in the first quarter a Gibbet of the second, noosed proper, Callcraft. 2nd, Sable, three Nightcaps Argent, tufted Gules, 2 and 1, Ketche. 3rd, Or, a Nosegay fleurant, Kirby.