And insides poor and empty.
And then so alter’d is the town,
As well as Gotham’s people;
That not a building here’s the same,
Except Saint Nich’las steeple.
Fam’d steeple! Gotham’s greatest boast,
Long may you here remain,
Whilst other churches are pull’d down,
And built ’gain and again.
The streets are now so num’rous grown,[81]