Broad Grins / Comprising, With New Additional Tales in Verse, Those / Formerly Publish'd Under the Title "My Night-Gown and / Slippers."

by George Colman

It was the custom of these three

To sit up late;

And, o’er the embers of the Ale-house fire,

When steadier customers retire,

The choice Triumviri, d’ye see,

Held a debate.

Held a debate?—On politicks, no doubt.

Not so;—they care’d not who was in,

No, not a pin;—

Nor who was out.