from Odes: 14. Gin the Goodwife Stint

The ploughland has gone to bent and the pasture to heather; gin the goodwife stint, she’ll keep the house together. Gin the goodwife stint and the bairns hunger the Duke can get his rent one year longer. The Duke can get his rent and we can get our ticket twa pund emigrant on a C.P.R. packet.