Sloppy streets and foggy day,

Where the blundering folks do stray!

Pavements, on whose slippery flags

Swearing coach-men drive their nags;

Barbers jostled ’gainst your side,

Narrow streets, and gutters wide.

Grub-street garrets now it sees,

To the muse open and the breeze,

Where perhaps some scribbler hungers,

The hack of neighbouring newsmongers,