’Twixt footman Sam and Doctor Toe
A controversy fell,
Which should prevail against his foe,
And bear away the belle.
The lady chose the footman’s heart.
Say, who can wonder? no man:
The whole prevailed above the part:
’Twas Foot-man versus Toe-man.
ON AN OLD LADY WHO MARRIED HER FOOTMAN.
Old Lady Lovejoy, aged just threescore,