The parties billing, cooing,

When to herself, she said, “God’s curse,”

“What nasty work’s a brewing;”

I’ll spit ’em, baste ’em, roast ’em too,

I’ll clyster-pipe the fellows,

Then straight with water scalding hot,

She fill’d the kitchen bellows.

Nell chambermaid next crept up stairs,

Saw th’ ensign on a table,

The captain charging ’twixt his legs,