Off free, ere your mirth gets a damper!

You 've Monday, your one day, your fun-day,

While mine is a year that 's all Sunday.

I 've seen you, times—who knows how many?—

Dance in here, strike up, play the zany,

Make mouths at the Tenant, hoot warning

You 'll find him decamped next May-morning;

Then scuttle away, glad to 'scape hence

With—kicks? no, but laughter and ha'pence!

Mine 's freehold, by grace of the grand Lord