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 18 For want of patience both perplex 'em

Thus hungry, raw, unthinking youth

Run home from ſchool with open mouth,

Are mad for meat, and wild for play

Impatient at the maids delay:

Will dip their bread in dripping pan,

With all the eagerneſs they can;

Diſturb the houſe and teaze their mother,

And fight with ſiſter, or with brother;

Roar, punch, and kick and play the fool,

And cry they'll be too long for ſchool,

Burn plates, and diſcompoſe the table,

Do all the miſchief they are able,

Abuſe the maids, climb on the chairs,

And dirty all the new clean'd ſtairs,

Till tray from his machine deſcends,

And Peggy draws to make all friends,

Then dinner comes, they eat are pleaſ'd

March of to ſchool, the houſe is eaſ'd.

At laſt the beef appears in ſight,

The groom moves ſlow the pond'rous weight

Then haſte is made, the table clad,

No patience till the grace is ſaid,

Swiſt to the ſmocking beef they fly,

Some cut their paſſage thro' a pye,

Out ſtreams the gravy on the cloth,

Some burn their tongue with ſcalding broth

But rolling ſpices made them fain,

They ſhake their heads, and ſup again,

Cut up that gooſe, cries one below,

And ſend us down a leg, or ſo,

An honeſt neighbour tries the point,