“I pray you partake of a cold collation.”
Each one took his seat without hesitation,
Eat and drank and talk’d o’er the affairs of the nation,
And the Captain delivered a long peroration,
So fulsome, it met with the Earl’s condemnation.
The business being o’er, and the Mayor’s invitation
Accepted, each went to his own habitation.
And the Mayor, uplifted with such exultation,
Sends forth the following proclamation:
“O yes! O yes! be it known to all men,