But John whose skull with brains is cramn’d,

Their schemes did soon unriddle,

“And if I have, may I be damn’d,

(Quoth he) your Cat and Fiddle!

“What! think you me to tax and gull,

“For building this here house!

“Or thinks a Cat to catch John Bull

“Just as she’d catch a mouse?

“Your modesty, upon my soul,

“Much with the ton increases,