My checks, my tie, my gilded studs,
Will vanquish all the rival “bloods.”
So, if such pleasures may thee move,
Come, switch with me, my cockney Love.
The Globe. September 19, 1887.
The Nymph’s Reply
to the “Cockney Shepheard,” is unfavourable to his appeal to her to come and switch with him in “Arcadia.” Much sympathy will be felt with the “Shepheard” on this refusal of his love to “switch the world with noble carmanship.”
Shepheard, an I were sweet seventeen,
And thou wert green and I were green,
These pretty pleasures might me move