The Bachelor's Song.

Like a dog with a bottle, fast ty'd to his tail,

Like vermin in a trap, or a thief in a jail,

Like a Tory in a bog,

Or an ape with a clog:

Such is the man, who when he might go free,

Does his liberty lose

For a Matrimony noose,

And sells himself into captivity.

The dog he does howl, when his bottle does jog,