I’m a gent! I’m a gent! in the Regent Street style;
Examine my waistcoat, and look at my tile.
There are gents, I dare say, who are handsomer far,
But none who can puff with such ease a cigar.
From Sharp’s Vauxhall Comic Song Book. London: Thomas Allman.
The Old English Constable.
I’ll sing you of a good old boy, whom all must now revere,
Of a fine old English constable, who lived for many a year;
Who, though his natural looks were kind, could oft be most severe,