The Choice Humorous Works, Ludicrous Adventures, Bons Mots, Puns, and Hoaxes of Theodore Hook

by Theodore Edward Hook

go, and a - beg - ging we will go.

Of all the beggars going, who prey on public pence,

The Whig excels in wants and woes, in tricks and impudence;

So a begging we will go, will go, will go, so a begging we will go.

The beggar in the public ways, his ills, as merits shews,

Is lame, or blind, or idiot-struck, or wants his hands or toes;

When a begging he will go, will go, will go, when a begging he will go.

So, by their faults, the starving Whigs attempt to raise the wind,

In Council, fools—in action, lame—in understanding, blind;