Is considered a person, though a small one, it is true,
Butt, a pot-bellied Alderman is counted as two, now,
To help them to pay for the Flags!
Now the Act is in force, I should not at all wonder
That dustmen and nightmen and costermongers
Will apply for a license and take out a number
And mount on their foreheads a flag;
And the people they shout, tho’ it’s really too bad, sir,
As over the stones they go with their cabs, sir,
I say, old pal, I’ll have your flag,