Whose constant cares were to increase his wealth,

And keep his only son, myself, at school;

For I had heard of speeches, and I long’d

To follow in the House some noisy chief,

And Bedford granted what my sire denied.

This House which opes to-night, large as my brewhouse,

Had not yet rais’d its head, when on its site

A band of Irish bricklayers, from the street,

Rush’d like mad dogs upon the ruin’d walls,

Wheeling the bricks and stones; the Renters fled