Log. We must masquerade it there.
Kate. (To Sue, aside). And so must we—come, Trifle,
[Exeunt Omnes.
Billy Waters, Soldier Suke, Ragged Dick, Little Jemmy.
| There’s a difference between a beggar and a queen, And the reason I’ll tell you why; A queen cannot swagger, not get drunk like a beggar Nor be half so happy as I,—as I. |
SCENE—Back Slums in the Holy Land.
MR. JENKINS, SOLDIER SUKE, DINGY BET, LITTLE JEMMY, CREEPING JACK, RAGGED DICK, and other well-known Characters discovered.
SONG.—Mr. Jenkins.
Air.—“It was one Frosty Morning.”
Cadgers make holiday,
Hey, for the maunder’s joys,
Let pious ones fast and pray,
They save us the trouble, my boys.
On the best peck and booze we’ll live,
’Tis fit we their blunt should spend;
For what to us they give,
Tenfold to the saints they lend.
Rumpti bumpti bay, &c.
With our doxies, great as a Turk,
We taste all life can give;
For who but a slave would work,
When he like a prince might live?
Then lustily call away,
Cadgers keep up the ball,
Never mind what’s to pay,
The public pays for all.
Rumpti, bumpti bay, &c.