For in course each side is furnish'd with its backers and its touters;

And surely among the Clergy to such pitches it is carried,

You can hardly find a Parson to get buried or get married;

Or supposing any accident that suddenly alarms,

If you're dying for a surgeon, you must fetch him from the "Arms";

While the Schoolmasters and Tooters are neglecting of their scholars,

To write about a Chairman for the Glorious Apollers.

Well, that, sir, is the racket; and the more the sin and shame

Of them that help to stir it up, and propagate the same;

Instead of vocal ditties, and the social flowing cup,—