Lax in their gaiters, laxer in their gait,

Who oft, when we our house lock up, carouse

With tippling tipstaves in a lock-up house.

Yet here, as elsewhere, chance can joy bestow,

Where scowling fortune seem'd to threaten woe.

John Richard William Alexander Dwyer

Was footman to Justinian Stubbs, Esquire;

But when John Dwyer listed in the Blues,

Emanuel Jennings polish'd Stubbs's shoes.

Emanuel Jennings brought his youngest boy