To accost a young maid with a drop in her eye;
I'd as soon catch a snake or a viper:
She, while wiping her tears, gives Apollo some wipes;
And when a young lady has set up her pipes,
Her lover will soon pay the piper.
Papa locked her up—but the very next night,
With a cornet of horse, the young lady took flight;
To Apollo she left this apology—
"That, were she to spend with an old man her life,
She would gain, by the penance she'd bear as a wife,