A Sum, my dear Mother, far heavier yet,
Captain CORMORANT won, when I learn'd Lansquenet;
Two Hundred I paid him, and Five am in Debt.
For the Five, I had nothing to do but to
For the Captain was very well bred, and polite,
And took, as he saw my Expences were great,
My Bond, to be paid on the  Estate;
And asks nothing more while the Money is lent,
Than Interest paid him at Twenty per Cent.
But I'm shock'd to relate what Distresses befall
Miss JENNY, my Sister and TABBY and all:
Miss JENNY, poor Thing, from this  Expedition,
Was in Hopes very soon to have chang'd her Condition;
But Rumour has brought certain Things to her Ear,
Which I ne'er will believe, yet am sorry to hear;
"That the Captain, her Lover, her dear ROMEÔ,
Was Banish'd the Army a great while ago.
That his Friends and his Foes He alike can betray,
And picks up a scandalous Living by Play:"
But if e'er I could think that the Captain had cheated,
Or my dear Cousin JENNY unworthily treated,
By all that is sacred I swear, for his Pains
I'd cudgel him first, and then blow out his Brains.
For the Man I abhor like the Devil, dear Mother,
Who one Thing conceals, and professes another.