merry church of Bow is to be seen on the other side of a wooden fence, apparently fifty yards off.
"Then taking heart, he wandered home,
But meeting on the road
A boy, who had a Cat to sell,
He took't to his abode."
(I think, now, that "took't" shows real genius! How else could you have got over the difficulty?)
"She drove away the rats and mice—
She was his only friend,"—
(This is true pathos.)
"But when the Merchant went abroad,
He Puss did with him send."
(This part wants thinking over. It means Whittington sent the Cat with his master; please, however, read on):—
"It was the only thing he had—
Each servant something sent;
The cook became more cruel still
After her master went.
Meanwhile Puss sail'd across the seas,
Unto the Moorish Court,
And to the palace of the King
The merchant Pussy brought;
