12. Shall gentlemen with ladies join To practice like the brutes, Then let them keep with cattle and sheep, And fodder on their fruits. 13. This cursed course is one great source Of matches undesigned, Quarrels and strife twixt man and wife, And bastards of their kind. 14. But in excuse of this abuse It oftentimes is said, Father and mother did no other Than strip and go to bed. 15. But grant some did as you have said, Yet do they not repent, And wish that you may never do What they so much lament? 16. A stupid ass can't be more base Than are those guilty youth Who fill with smart a parent's heart, And turn it into mirth. 17. Others do plead hard for the bed, Their health and weariness, So drunkards will drink down their swill, And call it no excess. 18. Under pretense of self defense, Others will scold and say, An honest maid is chaste abed As any other way. 19. But where's the man that fire can Into his bosom take, Or go through coals on his foot soles And not a blister make? 20. Temptation's way has led astray The likeliest of you all, And yet you'r found on slippery ground, And think you cannot fall. 21. A female meek, with blushing cheek, Seized in some lover's arms, Has oft grown weak with Cupid's heat And lost her virgin charms. 22. But last of all, up speaks romp Moll And pleads to be excused, For how can she e'er married be, If bundling be refused? 23. What strange mistake young women, To hope for sparks this way! Your fond bold acts can't lay a tax That men will ever pay. 24. So cheap and free some women be, That men are cloyed with sweet, As horse or cow starve at the mow With fodder under feet. 25. 'Tis therefore vain yourselves to screen, The practice is accurst, It is condemned by God and man, The pious and the just. 26. Should you go on, the day will come, When Christ your Judge will say, In _bundles_ bind each of this kind, And cast them all away. 27. Down deep in hell there let them dwell, And bundle on that bed; There burn and roll without control, 'Till all their lusts are fed. The evidence presented in the preceding pages, establishes, as we think, the following facts: 1st. That the custom, so far as it pertained to the American States, had its origin as a matter of convenience and necessity. 2d. That in all stages of its history it was chiefly confined to the humbler classes of society. 3d. That its prevalence may be said to have closed with the eighteenth century. It is our opinion that it came nearest to being a universal custom from 1750 to 1780, and that it was, at all times, regarded by the better classes as a serious evil, and was no more countenanced by them then the frequenting of grog shops is by the better class of the present day.