is [the devil],(25) mit shrews to splice,
Dat nobody can deny, deny,
Dat nobody can deny.

_Chorus._--That nobody can deny, &c.

When a wife to rule once wishes,
Mit poor spouse 'tis all my eye,
I'm [d----d](26) if she don't wear de breeches,
Dat nobody can deny, deny,
Dat nobody can deny.

_Chorus._--That nobody can deny, &c.

Yet dere is a charm about dem,
Do dere voices are so high
We can't do mit'em, [_Pause._
Nor we can't do mit-out 'em,
Dat nobody can deny, deny,
Dat nobody can deny.

_Chorus._--That nobody can deny, &c.(27)

DAME.

[_Without._] Rip, Rip! I'll stretch your ears when I get hold of them.

RIP.

[Mine goot im himmel],(28) dere is my frow.

DAME.

[_Without._] Rip! you lazy varmint! Rip!

RIP.

[_Gets under the table with bottle._] Look out, boys! de wild cat's
coming.

_Music._--VEDDER, RORY _and_ CLAUSEN, _at table._--_Enter_ DAME, _with a
stick._

DAME.

Where is this wicked husband of mine! odds bodikins and pins! I heard
his voice; you've hid him somewhere! you ought to be ashamed of
yourselves to inveigle a husband from a tender, loving spouse; but I'm
put upon by all, because they know the mildness of my temper.--[_They
laugh._]--Odds bodikins and curling irons, but some of you shall laugh
the other sides of your mouths--I'll pull your pates for you.(29)

_Music._--_Chases them round table; they exit._--DAME _upsets table and
discovers_ RIP.

DAME.

Oh, you Rip of all rips! what have you to say for yourself?

RIP.

Here is your [go-to-hell],(30) unt your family's, unt may you all live
long and [prosper].

DAME.

[_Pulling him down the stage by the ear._] I'm cool--that is to say not
very hot: but the mildest temper in the world would be in a passion at
such treatment. Get home, you drunken monster, or I sha'n't be able to
keep my hands off you. Tell me, sir, what have you been about all day?

RIP.

Hard at work, my dumpsy dumpsy; de first ting I see dis morning was a
fine fat rabbit.

DAME.

A rabbit? Oh, I do like rabbits in a stew; I like everything in a stew.

RIP.

I be [d----d](31) but dat is a fact.

DAME.

Well, well, the rabbit?

RIP.

I was going to te