But they will never dare—the dastards, No!—
To stop the Lord Mayor's Show.
Your fright, my Lord, 's a pardonable error.
The Proclamation can't apply to you.
No one, I'm sure, can take you for a Terror,
Red, white, or any other tint or hue.
Are you "disorderly"?
No; you within legality's trim-kept border lie;
From touching you even almighty Law
Would shrink with utter awe.