The colours are divine;
But ho! the black, the black,
Give me as much again, and let ’t be sack;
She that hath good eyes,’ &c.
This song was appropriated by S. Sheppard, in a comedy called the Committee-man Curried, 1647, without any acknowledgment of the source from whence he stole it.
Song by Sir Robert Peel.
Here’s to each Tory and Radical too;
Just only my Income Tax pass, boys,
And you’ll see how completely John Bull I shall “do,”