Heigh ho! said Henry Colburn.

Off he set with the “Pleasures of Hope,”

Heigh ho! said Colburn.

On the road he spouted from Pope,

With his absent, thoughtless!—gammon and spinage—

Heigh ho! said Henry Colburn.

He soon arrived at the Union Club,

Heigh ho! said Redding;

And he knocked at the door with a rub-a-dub-dub,

And an English, Irish—gammon and spinage—