Paid every annual year.
Some coves when they rises you know,
They stick to vulgarity will;
But that vos my notice below,
’Cos as how I’m a gen’leman still,
“For riches is nothing to me,
If ever them I vos among—”
As the gen’leman said, d’ye see,
At the time he vos goin’ to be hung!
(For remainder of this old street ballad see p. 276 of The Life and Times of James Catnach, by Charles Hindley. London. Reeves & Turner, 1878.)