And her hunger cleared my pockets oft of shillings not a few!
Many an evening down at Greenwich did we eat the pleasant “bait,”
Till I found my earnings going at a rather rapid rate.—
Oh! Miss Belmont, fickle-hearted! Oh, Miss Belmont, known too late!
Oh, that horrid, horrid Richmond, oh, the cursed, cursed “bait.”
Falser far than Lola Montes, falser e’en than Alice Gray,
Scorner of a faithful press-man, sharer of a tumbler’s pay!—
Is it well to wish thee happy? having once loved me—to wed
With a fool who gains his living by his heels and not his head!
As the husband is, the wife is: thou art mated with a clown,