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,”