O, the language they used, and the pranks that they played;
O, the terrible tricks that those spectres essayed;
O, the sentiments shocking that came from their lips;
O, the crimes that they had at their finger-bones’ tips!
It was “Bedlam” and Newgate and Hanwell “broke loose,”
And their language!—their mildest expression was “deuce!”—
The Lord Mayor he shuddered and fell on his knees;
He had never before seen such infamous sprees.
But just as his lordship was checking a sob,