A pig on a dung-hill, or crow on a tree.

In London if folks ill together are put,

A bow may be dropt, and a quiz may be cut;

We change without end; and if lazy or ill,

All wants are at hand, and all wishes at will.

In the country you’re nail’d, like a pale in the park,

To some stick of a neighbour that’s cramm’d in the ark;

And ’tis odds, if you’re hurt, or in fits tumble down,

You reach death ere the doctor can reach you from town.

In London how easy we visit and meet,