Now Kitty, the house-maid, so frisky and fair,

Who smelt none the sweeter for carrotty hair,

Presenting her palm to the gipsey so shrewd,

Was candidly told that her nature was lewd:

While feeling the vein near her gold-girted nick,

Kate play’d the old gipsey a slippery trick,

So Kate, that had ne’er been consider’d a whore,

Was told she’d miscarried the morning before.

VIII.

Then came Peggy the prude, who no bawdy could bear,