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

by W. S. Gilbert

On sharpers and pickpockets, swindlers and pads

(For I, with my harp, was there).

And Jimmy went down with his Jane that day,

And John by the collar or nape

Seized everybody who came in his way

(And I had a narrow escape).

He noticed his Emily Jane with Jim,

And envied the well-made elf;

And people remarked that he muttered "Oh, dim!"