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