Now laughing stops, with 'Silence! hush!'
And Peggy Pout gives Sam a push.
The Blind-man's arms, extended wide,
Sam slips between:—'O woe betide
Thee, clumsy Will!'—but titt'ring Kate 25
Is pen'd up in the corner strait!
And now Will's eyes beheld the play;
He thought his face was t'other way.
'Now, Kitty, now! what chance hast thou,
Roger so near thee!—Trips, I vow! ' 30
She catches him—then Roger ties
His own head up—but not his eyes;
For thro' the slender cloth he sees,
And runs at Sam, who slips with ease
His clumsy hold; and, dodging round, 35
Sukey is tumbled on the ground!—
'See what it is to play unfair!
Where cheating is, there's mischief there.'
But Roger still pursues the chace,—
'He sees! he sees!' cries softly Grace; 40
'O Roger, thou, unskill'd in art,
Must, surer bound, go thro' thy part!'
Now Kitty, pert, repeats the rhymes,
And Roger turns him round three times,
29-31 Now . . . him] This seems to be the sense intended by the faulty punctuation of the original:
'Now, Kitty, now; what chance hast thou,
Roger so near thee, Trips; I vow!
She catches him—'
DGR reads:
'Now, Kitty, now! what chance hast thou!
Roger so near thee trips!—I vow
She catches him!—'
Shep.:
'"Now, Kitty, now; what chance hast thou,
Roger so near thee trips, I vow!'
She catches him—'
WMR, EY, and WBY:
'"Now, Kitty, now! what chance hast thou?
Roger so near thee trips, I vow!"
She catches him—'
