Who hath not

On the spot

(Should he miss a first shot)

Some resource in a double barrel.

'Twas the Goddess of Sport, in her woodland court,

Diana, first taught this moral,

Which the Goddess of Love soon adopted, and strove

To improve on the "double barrel."

Hence her Cupid, we know, put two strings to his bow;

And she laughs, when two lovers quarrel,