So she took from the corner a little cruiskeen

Well filled with the nectar Apollo loves best,

(From the neat Bog of Allen, some pretty poteen);

And he tippled his quantum and staggered to rest.

His many-caped box-coat around him he threw,

For his bed, faith, ’twas dampish, and none of the best;

All above him the clouds their bright-fringed curtains drew,

And the tuft of his night-cap lay red in the west.

Thomas Hamblin Porter (fl. 1820).

KITTY OF COLERAINE.