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Rh "The common country folk in this insipid neighbourhood Have nothing to confess, they're so ridiculously good; And if you marry anyone respectable at all, Why, you'll reform, and what will then become of ?"

The worthy priest, he up and drew his cowl upon his crown, And started off in haste to tell the news to ; To tell him how his daughter, who now was for marriage fit, Had winked upon a sorter, who reciprocated it.

Good he muffled up his anger pretty well, He said "I have a notion, and that notion I will tell; I will nab this gay young sorter, terrify him into fits, And get my gentle wife to chop him into little bits.

"I've studied human nature, and I know a thing or two, Though a girl may fondly love a living gent, as many do— A feeling of disgust upon her senses there will fall When she looks upon his body chopped particularly small."

He traced that gallant sorter to a still suburban square; He watched his opportunity and seized him unaware; He took a life-preserver and he hit him on the head, And dissected him before she went to bed.