Or duck a taxman or harry a bum,[7] ]
Or "clip a server,"[8] ] did blithely lie
In the stable parlour next to the sky[9] ]
Dinners, save chance ones, seldom had they,
Unless they could nibble their beds of hay;
But the less they got, they were hardier all—
'T was the custom of Neck-or-Nothing Hall.
One lord there sat in that terrible hall,
Two ladies came at his terrible call,—
One his mother and one his wife,