And so was the bailiff eke,

In the lock-up house he hath got his man,

A prisoner safe and meek.

*  *  *  *  *

The arrestee is at Calais now,

Out of the Bench came he,

Genteelly dres’t, like a buck of the west,

Who the deuce could he be?

At first they saw him every day,

And then a week him missed;