[Exit hastily.
XIV.
DRURY-LANE HUSTINGS.
A New Halfpenny Ballad.
By A PIC-NIC POET. [69]
This is the very age of promise: To promise is most courtly and fashionable. Performance is a kind of will or testament, which argues a great sickness in his judgment that makes it.—Timon of Athens.
[To be sung by Mr. Johnson in the character of Looney M’Twolter.]
I.
Mr. Jack, your address, says the Prompter to me,
So I gave him my card—No, that a’nt it, says he;
’Tis your public address. Oh! says I, never fear,
If address you are bother’d for, only look here.
[Puts on hat affectedly.
Tol de rol lol, &c.
II.