For lo!” she ses, “for lo! old pal,” ses she,

“I’m blooming peckish, neither more nor less.”

Was it not prime—I leave you all to guess

How prime!—to have a jude in love’s distress

Come spooning round, and murmuring balmilee,

“O crikey, Bill!”

For in such rorty wise doth Love express

His blooming views, and asks for your address,

And makes it right, and does the gay and free.

I kissed her—I did so! And her and me