VERSES MADE FOR FRUIT-WOMEN

By Jonathan Swift

Come buy my fine wares,

Plums, apples, and pears.

A hundred a penny,

In conscience too many:

Come, will you have any?

My children are seven,

I wish them in Heaven;

My husband a sot,

With his pipe and his pot,

Not a farthing will gain them,

And I must maintain them.