You’re not to be paid for ’till the lawsuit is ended:
But her bond it is good, he need not to doubt;
She is two or three years above being out.
Could my Knight be advised, he should ne’er spend his vigour
On one he can’t hope of e’er making bigger.”
Gay seems to have shared the watermen’s disgust at both coach and sedan.
“Boxed within the chair, contemn the street
And trust their safety to another’s feet,”
he says of those willing to use the chair. In another place he is comparing the two:—