Pugilistica: The History of British Boxing, Volume 1 (of 3) / Containing Lives of the Most Celebrated Pugilists; Full Reports of Their Battles from Contemporary Newspapers, With Authentic Portraits, Personal Anecdotes, and Sketches of the Principal Patrons of the Prize Ring, Forming a Complete History of the Ring from Fig and Broughton, 1719-40, to the Last Championship Battle Between King and Heenan, in December 1863

by Henry Downes Miles

To idle no longer in Chancery Lane!

Shall the Baker out-write thee, who never could beat thee!

Come, up with thy beaver, my jewel, again!

The green turf of Crawley is soft to receive thee—

The voice of thy Patlanders never will leave thee,

And Martin, the divil, can’t ‘fib’ thee or ‘weave’ thee

So answer the troublesome cretur, and train!

“Oh! answer the letter, Jack, (Goneril nor Regan

Could ne’er use more hard-hearted words to ould Lear);

And I wonder, I must say I do, that Pierce Egan