DISTRAINING FOR RENT.—A COURT LEVY.
Hollo! What's this?—of dirty-looking fellows what a bevy!
It's the sheriff's people, I declare, coming to hold a levy;
It's true, since in the place I've been, no rent I've had to pay,
But they might give one a little quarter, at least, on quarter day.
They know I've paid some taxes, and surely might have waited,
For, like a book that's greatly puff'd, I'm sadly overrated;
The landlord surely did not think that I would have decamp'd,
Although by last year's water I was very nearly swamp'd.
They charge one dear for stuff that e'en to think of makes one shiver,
Much more to drink; I mean, of course, the fluid from the river;
By paying for it separate, as water, we're deluded,
For, when we come to use it, we find the gas included;
But, then, the Water Companies at trifles never stick,
They really lay it on, at times, abominably thick;
The tax collectors of distress will never make no bones,
I'm sure the paving board are, in their hearts, a set of stones.
And as for windows, 'tis a shame, a rate for them to levy,
Which makes, as every one allows, the light come precious heavy;
But what am I about? oh! dear, amid this long digression,
The broker's man's got in, and I have lost my self-possession!
5. A protocol signed, announcing Mehemet Ali's unconditional submission to the Sultan.
The Sultan now may stand at ease,
Though Mehemet made him tremble daily,
When Ali, bent upon a breeze,
Was regularly Haily Galey.
31. The Allied Sovereigns entered Paris, 1814, and on the last day of the month ended their march.