And point to your sisters and wives!—

Because they simper 'Not nice, my dear;'—

As if they had ne'er in their lives

Been stitched, stitched, stitched,

Each prude in her own tight skirt,

And wouldn't have been, without a blush,

Had she had the chance—a Flirt!

"And why do I talk of a blush?

Have I much of Modesty known?

Why, no. Though, at times, her crimson cheek