Approach and read the warrant (if you can),

You may a copy get for half-a-crown.”

The Warrant.

Here rests his head, in “seventeen” and one,

A youth to fortune and to fame well-known.

But tradesmen trusted and began to dun,

And Mister Sheriff marked him for his own.

Great were his spendings, he naught put on shelf,—

To send a recompense law did not fail:

He gave his cred’tors, all he had—himself