If you’ll promise that you’ll wed me, I’ll at once become a prince;
For a fairy, old and vicious,
An enchantment round me spun!”
Then he looked up, unsuspicious,
And he saw what he had won,
And in terms of sad reproach, he
Made some comments, sotto voce,
(Which the publishers have bidden me to shun!)
Matilda Maud Mackenzie said, as if she meant to scold;
“I never! Why, you forward thing! Now, ain’t you awful bold!”