DRURY LANE HUSTINGS.
A NEW HALFPENNY BALLAD.
By a Pic-nic Poet.
This is the very age of promise. To promise is most courtly and fashionable. Performance is a kind of will or testament, which argues a great sickness in his judgment that makes it.—Timon of Athens.
To be sung by Mr. Johnstone in the character of Looney M'Twolter.
I.
"Mr. Jack, your address," says the prompter to me,
So I gave him my card—"No, that a'nt it," says he,
"'Tis your public address." "Oh!" says I, "never fear,
If address you are bother'd for, only look here." [Puts on hat affectedly.
Tol de rol lol, &c.