“I mean a nearer place.
“Amusements round the town are found,
Delighting unto all;
Therefore with me, if you’ll agree,
We’ll go to sweet Vaux-hall.
“A sculler, sure, will take us all,
The purchase can’t be great;
And then along the silver Thames,
How we shall ride in state.”
“Thy will be done,” John Gilpin cry’d,