Yon merry female who delights her master.

Journeying to town from Kent, I pass’d the Tower,

And, chance directed, came this day to write

An opera that’s wormwood to the Jews.[121]

From The Times, also quoted in The Spirit of the Public Journals for 1803.


Address,

To be spoken by the Author, dressed in the garb of a
Brewer’s Porter, armed with a Spigot, &c.

My name is Whitbread. Upon Hertford’s hills

My father kept his house; a brewer rich,