I soon may gain a wife:
There's buxom Joan, it is well known,
She loves me as her life."
"Pray, what of buxom Joan?
Can't I please you as well?
For she has ne'er a penny,
And I am buxom Nell;
And I have fifty shillings"
(The money made him smile):
"O then, my dear, I'll draw a chair,