Which may, or may not fail.
“Santa Maria, you’ve made a mistake,
My honour,” quoth he, “upon’t,
My name, gentle Bum, is White, not Wright,
I’m not the person you want.”
“Oh, yes, you’re the gentleman that I want,”
Was the wary Bum’s reply;
Said the arrestee, “it cannot be,
No gentleman am I.”
But it wouldn’t do, the writ was true,