Yet here, as elsewhere, Chance can joy bestow,

Where scowling Fortune seem’d to threaten woe.

John Richard William Alexander Dwyer

Was footman to Justinian Stubbs, Esquire;

But when John Dwyer listed in the blues,

Emanuel Jennings polished Stubbs’s shoes.

Emanuel Jennings brought his youngest boy

Up as a corn-cutter—a safe employ;

In Holywell Street, St. Pancras, he was bred

(At number twenty-seven, it is said),