The watch had cry'd Past one, with hollow strain,

And to their stands return'd to sleep again;

Grave cits and bullies, rakes and squeamish beaux,

Came reeling with their doxies from the Rose;

Jephson's and Mitchell's hurry now was done,

And now Tom King's (so rakes ordain'd) begun;

Bright shone the Moon, and calm around the sky,

No cinder-wench, nor straggling link-boy nigh,

When in that garden, where with mimic pow'r

Strut the mock-purple heroes of an hour;