From the crown of his head to the sole of his stocking.
So yielding himself with a touching submission
To what he considered a vile imposition,
He handed the bag with the tin to the highwayman,
who took it, and saying, in rather a dry way,
‘Many thanks, gallant sir,’ galloped off down a bye way.”
The town council has met, and his worship the Mayor,
Master Zachary Blair,
Having taken the chair,
And sat in it too, which was nothing but fair,