To Datchet, Slough, or Horton they,

Or e’en to Colnbrook, took their way,

Or ancient Windsor’s regal town;

Stopp’d everybody they could meet,

Knock’d at each house in every street,

In hopes of half-a-crown.

Gay clothes were theirs, by fancy made;

Some were as Romans drest,

Some in the Grecian garb array’d,

Some bore the knightly crest;