“My wife’s so very bad” cry’d Phill‐‐‐
“I fear she’ll never hold it,”
“She ᴋᴇᴇᴘꜱ her bed” “Mine’s worse”
said Will‐‐‐
“The Jade this morning ꜱᴏʟᴅ it.”
From: ‘A Rum Effect’ in The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, Sat 12 Mar 1803, p. 4.
(https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/625449
Date: 1803
By: Robert (George) Howe (1769-1821)
From Troubles of The World 