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The works of Thomas Hood

Comic and serious: In prose and verse. Edited, with notes, by his son

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MORAL.

Ye Cóblenz maids, take warning by the rhyme,
And as our Christian laws forbid polygamy
For fear of bigamy,
Only light up one taper at a time.