I ax’d him was he fit to die,
Without having duly repented?
Says Larry, “That’s all in my eye,
And all by the gownsmen invented,
To make a fat bit for themselves.”
Then the cards being called for, they played,
Till Larry found one of them cheated;
Quick he made a smart stroke at his head—
The lad being easily heated.
“Oh! by the holy, you thief,