From The Life and Times of James Catnach, by Charles Hindley. London, Reeves and Turner. 1878.
The Death of Socrates.
By the Rev. Robt. Burrowes, Dean of St. Finbar’s Cathedral, Cork.
The night before Larry was stretch’d,
The boys they all paid him a visit;
A bit in their sacks, too, they fetch’d—
They sweated their duds[274] till they riz it;
For Larry was always the lad,
When a friend was condemn’d to the squeezer[275],