• The Maid, as by the papers doth appear,
    Whom fifty thousand dollars made so dear,
    To test Lothario’s passion, simply said:
    “Forego the weed before we go to wed.
    For smoke take flame; I ’ll be that flame’s bright fanner:
    To have your Anna, give up your Havana.”
    But he, when thus she brought him to the scratch,
    Lit his cigar and threw away...