Pugilistica: The History of British Boxing, Volume 2 (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, 1719-1740, to the Last Championship Battle Between King and Heenan, in December 1863

by Henry Downes Miles

Muzzling—cribbing—

Blood-letting like a doctor’s lance—

Setting teeth chattering,

Christianity shattering,

And, Joshua-like, making the moon-eyes dance.

Cutler Street is like a fair;

Barney Aaron! Barney Aaron!

All the little Jews declare,

Rows his keel like Charon.

Old Mendoza—Young Mendoza—