The Bab Ballads, with Which Are Included Songs of a Savoyard

by W. S. Gilbert

And, when you're intimate, you call him "Bertie."

Neat—dresses well; his temper has been classified

As hasty; but he's very quickly pacified.

You'll find him working mildly at the Bar,

After a touch at two or three professions,

From easy affluence extremely far,

A brief or two on Circuit—"soup" at Sessions;

A pound or two from whist and backing horses,

And, say, three hundred from his own resources.