So I ask'd what the play were? they told me, by gum,
'Twas a very fine tragedy, call'd Tommy Thumb.
In Yorkshire I'd oft heard our knowing ones say,
That a very good moral was learn'd from a play,
And that tragedy boasted of language so fine,
So I thought that, as how, it might help me wi' mine.
Well, the curtain drew up, and the first to appear,
Were two gentlemen drest, to be sure, mortal queer;
Says one, "To the king, this petition I'll show,"
Then the other to him answered, "Do, Doodle, do."