_Three Things_ are the _Better_ for _Beating_.
A Good Woman happen’d to pass by as a Company of Young Fellows were
Cudgelling a Wallnut-Tree, and ask’d them what they did That for? This is
only by the Way of Discipline, says one of the Lads; for ’tis Natural for
_Asses_, _Women_, and _Wallnut-Trees_ to _Mend_ upon _Beating_.
The MORAL.
_Spur a Jade a Question, and he’ll kick ye an Answer._