To cram now the guests had begun;

Tooth and nail, like a wolf, fell the bride on the feast,

Nor yet had the clash of her knife and fork ceas’d,

When a bell (’twas a dustman’s) toll’d “One!”

Then first, with amazement Brown Sally Green found

That a stranger was stuck by her side;

His cravat and his ruffles with snuff were embrown’d;

He ate not, he drank not, but turning him round,

Sent some pudding away to be fried!!!

His wig was turn’d forwards, and short was his height,