They censur’d the Bantam for strutting and crowing

In those vile pantaloons, which he fancied look’d knowing:

And a want of decorum caus’d many demurs

Against the Game Chicken, for coming in spurs.

Old Alderman Cormrant, for supper impatient,

At the Eating-room door, for an hour had been station’d,

Till a Magpye, at length, the banquet announcing,

Gave the signal, long wish’d for, of clamouring and pouncing;

At the well-furnish’d board all were eager to perch,

But the little Miss Creepers were left in the lurch.