Then let us hope this fine old sub will be promoted yet,
Though in these days a company’s no easy thing to get;
Yet we will hope that by ill-luck he’ll cease to be beset,
And look for his promotion in the very next Gazette,
This fine old, &c.
From Wiseheart’s New Comic Songster. Dublin. No date.
The Fine Young English Officer,
(As he is to be,)
I sing of one whom now that we’ve begun to educate,