Parody of Liston's "Beautiful Maid"

My fishmonger told me that soles were most dear:
I trembled to hear what he said,
For salmon and shrimps 't was the wrong time of year,
So I pitched on a Beautiful Maid.

I brought home my beautiful maid,
"Here, cook, dress this beautiful maid!
Come, boil it, don't spoil it, but see it well done,
And I ' dine on my beautiful maid!"

But an ugly black cat — I speak it with grief—
My delicate tit-bit waylaid:
The cook turned her back, and the long-whiskered thief
Ran away with my beautiful maid!

She clawed up my beautiful maid!
She eloped with my beautiful maid!
O pussy, you hussy, oh! what have you done?
You 've eat up my beautiful maid!