And said, ‘Honest Thomas, come take your last bier;’

We kneaded his clay in the shape of this can,

From which let us drink to the health of my Nan.”

W. M. Thackeray.


THE GIPSY KING.

’Tis I am the Gipsy King,

And where is the king like me?

No troubles my dignities bring;

No other is half so free.