MARY ROGERS
A RONDEL
BY UNCLE PODGERS (zé BLONDEL)
MARY ROGERS! Woe to men,
Parsons, lawyers, sailors, sodgers !
Ca’ me canty but? and ben?
Mary Rogers!
Does she live by taking lodgers?
She is beautiful, but then
Quaint old jossers, queer old codgers— ?
How she does it, do ye ken? ®
Women are such artful dodgers!
Lord! I’d love to be there when
Mary Rogers.‘
1 But and ben—a Scots expression, very powerful and chaste.
2 This sentence is left unfinished for effect.
3 Does what? This is a problem rondel.
4 ¢.e, when yet unmarried.