That he may tippers to his horns contrive;

Plead ign’rance, tho’ he knows it all the while,

That his wife’s friend, of gold, he may beguile.

But say you, ‘Spouses thus might be in fault;’

Consider what good lessons you’d been taught;

From earliest youth what tutors you have had,

That you might rise the joy of Mam and Dad;

Virtue and Prudence, names of mighty force,

You work’d upon your samplers of course;

No sights unseemly ever struck your eyes,