Of pickpockets, thieves, and of base impositions!
Can you smile as you ride and you know all the while,
That the cabman will charge you five shillings a mile?
Oh, false as the bills of an actor’s “farewell,”
Are the hearts that they bear, and the lies that they tell.
The Month, by Albert Smith and John Leech, October, 1851.
The Pride of London.
Know ye the stream where the cesspool and sewer
Are emptied of all their foul slushes and slimes,