While the Milliner’s Bill is running.
Three wives sat up in Jane Clarke’s for hours.
And they told her to put every article down,
They ordered the silks, and they ordered the flowers
And the bill it kept rolling up, gown upon gown;
For wives must dress, and husbands will pay,
Though perhaps they will be in a terrible way
When they’re dunned for the Bill that is running.
Three Bankrupts were figuring in the Gazette
On a Tuesday night when the sun went down,