By time and usage nominated ‘High,’
Some few ‘choice spirits’ of his kin he’d meet,
To pounce upon the buyers passing by.
“Hard by yon Inn, yclep’d the ‘Mosley Arms,’
To circulate his cards he’d daily rove;
Now drooping, woeful man, with strange alarms,
And craz’d with care that goods he could not move.
“One morn I miss’d him at the ’custom’d post,
Along the street, and near his fav’rite Inn;
Another came,—I thought him surely lost,—