“For I’m damn’d,” exclaim’d Ned, “if these bitches shan’t find
“That I’m cabbag’d before, tho’ I’m loosen’d behind.”
IV.
’Twas early one morn, exercising his steed,
Ned saw an old gipsey hag crossing the mead,
Straight he hail’d her, and said, “Woman, where do you hie?”
She replied, “to tell fortunes of females hard by”:
Now these females Ned found were his jalapping friends,
So he thought it the season to make them amends,
Then he brib’d for the cant, and the gipsey’s old cloaths;