Here lives a gloomy wretch would show it him
In such most dismal colours, that the shrew,
Or slut, or idiot, or the gossip spouse,
Were each a heaven compared with such a life.”
The Maids, Wives, and Widows Penny Magazine,
October 27, 1832.
I do remember a cook’s shop—
And here about it stands—him late I noted
In tuck’d up sleeves, with night cap o’er his brows,