* “WAPPING OLD STAIRS.

“Your Molly has never been false,” she declares,

“Since the last time we parted at Wapping Old Stairs;

When I said that I would continue the same,

And I gave you the‘ bacco-box marked with my name.

When I passed a whole fortnight between decks with you,

Did I e'er give a kiss, Tom, to one of your crew?

To be useful and kind to my Thomas I stay'd,

For his trousers I washed, and his grog too I made.

“Though you promised last Sunday to walk in the Mall

With Susan from Deptford and likewise with Sall,

In silence I stood your unkindness to hear

And only upbraided my Tom with a tear.

Why should Sall, or should Susan, than me be more prized?

For the heart that is true, Tom, should ne'er be despised;

Then be constant and kind, nor your Molly forsake,

Still your trousers I'll wash and your grog too I'll make.”