The fiddling and dancing all chose to attend.

Miss Clunch and Sir Toby performed a cotillion,

Just the same as our Susan and Bob the postilion;

All the while her mamma was expressing her joy

That her daughter the morning so well could employ.

Now, why should the Muse, my dear mother, relate

The misfortunes that fall to the lot of the great?

As homeward we came, ’tis with sorrow you’ll hear

What a dreadful disaster attended the peer;

For whether some envious god had decreed