Equal? Yus, as old Barnum and Buggins, or tigers and tarrier pups.

He's a long-winded lot, is Buchanan, slops over tremenjous, he do;

Kinder poet, dear boy, I believe, and they always do flop round a few,

Make a rare lot o' splash and no progress, like ducks in a tub, dontcher know,

But cackle and splutter ain't swimming; so Robert, my nabs, it's no go.

Men ain't equal a mite, that's a moral, and patter won't level 'em up.

Wy yer might as well talk of a popgun a holding its own with a Krupp.

'Ow the brains and the ochre got fust ladled hout is a bit beyond me,

But to fancy as them as has got 'em will part is dashed fiddle-de-dee.

Normans nicked? Landlords copped? Lawyers fiddled? Quite likely; I dessay they did.