The tap house guests roaring, and mouthpieces bawling,
Pimps, Pawnbrokers, strollers, fat landladies, sailors,
Bawds, bailiffs, jilts, jockies, thieves, tumblers and taylors.
“Here’s Punch’s whole play of the Gunpowder-plot, sir,”
With “beasts all alive,” and “pease-porridge all hot,” sir,
“Fine sausages fried” and “the Black on the wire,”
“The whole Court of France” and “nice pig at the fire.”
Here’s the up-and-downs, “who’ll take a seat in the Chair-o?”
Tho’ there’s more up-and-downs than at Bartholomew fair-o.
Here’s “Whittington’s cat,” and “the tall dromedary,”