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,”