Negress. Well, then, an uproar, if you will have it so.

Punch. Well, what are you going to sing?

Negress. Well, I can sing politics, sentimental, or on love.

Punch. Then let’s have it on love.

Negress (sings).

Two lovers wandering in a wood—

What can be more delightful?

Just as they whisper, “Be my own,”

Should some one overhear them,

Can mortal be more spiteful?