My right leg is minus a foot,
My left has been taken away,
And another they haven't yet put.
In the "Lay of Leicester Square" Punch, after a survey of the great days of Leicester House, where "Prince Fred 'gainst Bubb Dodington once held the stakes," describes its lamentable condition at the moment he wrote:—
In dirt and neglect Soho's Slums I outvie
Than my seediest foreigner seedier am I.
Things had come to such a pass that "well bred spectres" no longer could haunt Leicester Square:—
I, Leicester Square garden, so called from the days
When my beds were made, shrubs pruned, and grass duly mown,
In my dirt and disorder maintain the old ways—