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

by W. S. Gilbert

There's none to cut you out.

"But, oh! if anybody came—

A Lord or any such—

I do not think your humble name

Would fascinate me much.

"For though your mates, you often boast

You distance out-and-out;

Still, in the abstract, you're a most

Uncompromising lout!"