The parchment pounced, and all that,

The signer signed, and the sealer sealed,

And lo, here is the Latitat.

“I am the bailiff employed to nab,

Out of the City I come,

Where, the lawyers’ will tell you, there’s not a more

Indefatigable Bum!”

The arrestee then ’gan to see

How the Bum he could give leg bail,

And now he bethinks him of a plan,