Hence little boys may learn, when they from school go out to dine, They should not deal in rigmarole, but still be back by nine; For if when they've their great-coat on, they pause before they part To tell a long and prosy tale,—perchance their own may smart!
Moral.
—A few remarks to learned Clerks in country and in town— Don't keep a pretty serving-maid, though clad in russet brown!— Don't let your Niece sing "Bobbing Joan!"—don't with a merry eye, Hob-nob in Sack and Malvoisie,—and don't eat too much pie!!
And oh! beware that Entry dark,—especially at night,— And don't go there with Jenny Smith all by the pale moonlight!— So bless the Queen and her Royal Weans,—and the Prince whose hand she took,— And bless us all, both great and small,—and keep us from Nell Cook!
FOOTNOTES:
[37] In or about the year 1780, a worthy of this name cut the throat of a journeyman paper-maker, was executed on Oaten Hill, and afterwards hung in chains near the scene of his crime. It was to this place, as being the extreme boundary of the City's jurisdiction, that the worthy Mayor with so much naïveté wished to escort Archbishop M—— on one of his progresses, when he begged to have the honour of "attending his Grace as far as the Gallows."