So get me a herring for tea.

Now he had not been gone an hour or more,

To Smithfield, and sold his donkey,

When a thought of the herring came into his head

I hope it’s a soft roe, said he—he—he—

I hope it’s a soft roe, said he.

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(Three coarse verses omitted.)


Lord Faddle’s Election for Bosh.