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I / ‘Tis known, at least it should be, that throughout / All countries of the Catholic persuasion, / Some weeks before Shrove Tuesday comes about, / The People take their fill of recreation, / And buy repentance, ere they grow devout, / However high their rank, or low their station, / With fiddling, feasting, dancing, drinking, masquing, / And other things which may be had for asking.
II / The moment night with dusky mantle covers / The skies (and the more duskily the better), / The Time less liked by husbands than by lovers / Begins, and Prudery flings aside her fetter; / And Gaiety on restless tiptoe hovers, / Giggling with all the gallants who beset her; / And there are songs and quavers, roaring, humming, / Guitars, and every other sort of strumming.