Midgit pucelle

• midget: P T Barnum displayed midgets in his shows

• midge: a louse, etc

• puce: (French) a flea

• pucelle: (French) maiden
• the cadence of this line, starting at "three lice nittle clinkers" and ending here at pucelle echoes "3 French hens (pucelle?), 2 turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree."