Say your young Lady for a cab sent,

Or swear black's white,—you've ne'er been absent;

Or, of belief to take a fresh hold,

No, "never stirr'd from off the threshold!"

'Howsever,' if it's yet a lie,

You have it still 'as cheap as I.'

In all disputes with cabmen, chairmen,

Act as if 'listed to be their men.

You "can't a-bear it, to be hard on

Poor fellows, that can't spare a farden."