Leary cove, said his flame in a pet,
Thou pink of love and bravery,
Since thou art floor’d, I’ll a service get,
And spend my days in slavery.
From Pierce Egan’s Book of Sports, 1832.
The Minstrel Boy.
The fiddlers boy to the fair is gone,
In a rattling booth you’ll find him,
With his master’s fiddle (for his own’s in pawn)