In all your troubles and your trials,

You never knew, as I reveal,

Such a murder, on the Seven Dials,

In St. Giles’s-in-the-fields.

In Earl Street lived a wretch named Jefferys,

Who a tailor was by trade we find,

A sad, a base, and cruel villain,

Wickedness ran in his mind;

A child, the villain ought to cherish,

His offspring which he should adore,