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The Sinners and the Sculls
A TALE,
By Peter Pindar.

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A pair of youths, too fond of missing,
That is, of one sad crime call d kissing,
Could never let the girls alone;
For ever busy with their lips———
Of Adam's block two nice young chips
As good for love as e'er was known.

To expiate these kissing crimes,
Committed, Lord, a thousane times,
The Priest; enjoin'd them penance twenty nights———
Each in his bed a human scull,
Cheek by jowl,
To try what good might be perform'd by frights

In a few days the Sinners met—
'Pierre, wasn't thcc in a dev'ish sweat,
To sleep so near a c———d old stinking head,
My senses all were nearly lost;

I dreamt of nothing but a ghost;