Think you our wives can quiet keep,

Or that a child can go to sleep

The while you "squib and rocket?"

I tell you, sir, I cannot count

The dangers to our daughters' fame;

But this I'll publish to their shame,

They find their sparks, and feel love's flame

Increasing in a-mount!

And tho' I'm no amusement hater,

Yet, by my study of Lav-a-ter,