Done for the things there's money in.

The stakes were drove, the ropes were hitched,

Into the ring my hat I pitched.

My corner faced the Squire's park

Just where the fir-trees make it dark;

The place where I begun poor Nell

Upon the woman's road to hell.

I thought oft, sitting in my corner

After the time-keep struck his warner

(Two brandy flasks, for fear of noise,