His BULL, this base brigand kept bound by the nose,

In a creek, on the confines of Coquet, that those

Cows which came across (thus decoy’d) to his corn,

The coin of their owners by craft to suborn.

He marry’d a maid with much money, as stated,

Both handsome, and harmless, yet heartily hated;

Hence hootings, and hissings, and banters beset her,

Because he his handmaid had long lov’d far better.

One sunday at dinner he saw of a sudden,

A human head hair peeping out of the pudding: