YOU Ladies draw near, I can tell you good News,

If you please to give Ear, or else you may Choose;

Of a British Accountant that's Frolick and free,

Who does wondrous Feats by the Rule of Three.

Addition, Division, and other such Rules,

I'll leave to be us'd by your Scribling Fools;

This Art is Improv'd unto such a Degree,

That he manages all by the Rule of Three.

You Dames that are Wed who can make it appear,

That you lose an Estate for want of an Heir: