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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
But when to mischief mortals bend their will,
How soon they find fit instruments of ill.
But when to mischief mortals bend their will,
How soon they find fit instruments of ill.
This is truth the poet sings,
That a sorrow's crown of sorrows is remembering happier things.
This is truth the poet sings,
That a sorrow's crown of sorrows is remembering happier things.
Don't shit on your own doorstep.
Don't shit on your own doorstep.
You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!
Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!
It's an ill aire where wee gaine nothing.
It's an ill aire where wee gaine nothing.
A woman the leader of the enterprise.
A woman the leader of the enterprise.
Hundreds of men were turned into beasts,
Like the guests at Circe's horrible feasts,
By the magic read more
Hundreds of men were turned into beasts,
Like the guests at Circe's horrible feasts,
By the magic of ale and cider.