Should soil his lily dress.

His powder’d head, his silken hose,

The dashing buckles on his toes,

Seem’d suited for a court;

The muslin round a pudding roll’d

In which he kept his chin from cold,

Was of the finest sort.

He trod on slow; but ’midst the tide

A brewer’s dray was seen to glide—

Unmindful of the mud;