for Kiss Me Annabel

In Kiss Me Annabel, Griselda complains about ballads that characterize widows as particularly lusty. We can't provide the music, but here's the verse she mentions:

But if a widow you'd kiss,
You must be much bolder;
For as they've sipt the bliss,
They don't feel much the colder!
If you'd seduce a maid,
You must swear, and sign, and flatter,
But if you'd win a widow,
You must down with your breeches and at her!

Griselda's idea that widows were viewed as lusty was certainly true in the Regency period; Eloisa regularly teaches a play in which a widow, being told she must be short [meaning brief], says: "Why, what a word is that to tell a widow?"

This is Eloisa's Egg #2 - "collect" them all!