Every tongue seem’d employ’d, and the row did increase,
Whilst the Charleys their rattles so cheerily spring.
I hopp’d into the crowd, the news for to catch,
But scarcely had open’d my mouth to inquire,
When a rascally thief made off with my watch,
Tript my heels, and so laid me flat down in the mire.
The watchmen surrounded, and bore me away,
And in limbo was kept till the dawn of next day.
To the justice they took me, to tell my sad tale,
Who ask’d me what in defence I’d to say,