Four frisky maidens, young, handsome, and plump,

Who cou’d each crack a flea on their bubbies or rump,

Took it into their heads, just to bother the tail

Of Ned Natty, a groom, so they jalap’d his ale.

II.

Now Ned on red herrings that ev’ning did sup,

So he drank ev’ry drop of the gripe-giving cup,

Soon his guts ’gan to grumble, and shortly Ned found

His bowels give way, and his body unbound:

The buckskin’s gay leather, by gallows confin’d,