To those who’d laugh at his old jokes he’d never close his door,

And none of his old favourites e’er voted him a bore,

But kindly laughed at tales they’d heard a thousand times before,

From this fine old, &c.

And every year to town he went to state his wretched case,

And to Lord Fitzroy’s lévee never failed to show his face;

And though he gets some promises, and time wears on apace,

Still, still his name’s reposing in it’s old accustomed place,

This fine old, &c.