Thro’ a long lane of lacqueys you meet your hard fate,

Screw’d in and screw’d out of a damn’d narrow gate.

X.

Then how cursedly civil when folks in town roam,

To leave cards with their friends, when they know they’re from home;

In the country, glad welcome our visits attends,

We’ve no humbugging, card-dropping, shy-fighting friends.

XI.

In London, while day-light, not long are you clean;

At night you’re bug bitten, scarce fit to be seen;