Nor the sweet environs of Drury Lane;

Nor dusty Pimlico’s embow’ring shades;

Nor Whitehall, by the river’s bank,

Beset with rowers dank

Nor where th’ Exchange pours forth its tawny sons;

Nor where to mix with offal, soil and blood,

Steep Snow Hill rolls the sable flood;

Nor where the Mint’s contaminated kennel runs;

Ill doth it now beseem,

That thou should’st doze and dream,