Tête-à-tête Doctor Drake sat with old Gammer Goose.

[p35] And Sir Christopher Crow wore a coat on his back,

Of a true Day and Martin-like polish of black.

Mother Magpie and Priscilla Parrot, in spite,

Could talk without ceasing from morning to night;

Spread abroad Entre nous and On dits by the score,

All the news they had heard, and a hundred times more.

A multitude muster’d, escaped from the plains,

Of sight-loving lasses and holiday swains: