Waiting till his supper cool;

And maid, whose cheek outblooms the rose,

As bright the blazing faggot glows,

Who, bending to the friendly light,

Plies her task with busy sleight;

Come, show thy tricks and sportive graces,

Thus circled round with merry faces.

Backward coil’d, and crouching low,

With glaring eyeballs watch thy foe,

The housewife’s spindle whirling round,