Soon as I reach’d this once blest, happy cot,

Feeding the pigs, came Partlet from the stye;

More kicks than halfpence I too surely got,

She seiz’d a broomstick, and knock’d out my eye.

A bandy cur, sworn foe to all our race,

Some few years past, when I was strong and plump,

Who, if I hiss’d, would run and hide his face,

Now boldly tears my breeches from my * * *

The wall-eye’d brute next bit me thro’ the leg:

A naughty boy too, out of wanton joke,